PHOTO: Viesturs Kairiss's new film "Piļsāta pi river" premiered in Latgale

The film was shown first in Latgale, thus showing gratitude for the huge and enthusiastic support of the inhabitants of the beautiful region of Latvia in making the film. The premiere in Kraslava was shot with standing statues. The Riga premiere of the film will take place this week – on Wednesday, January 15 at the cinema “Splendid Palace” and “Kino Citadele”.

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Both the filmmakers and the main characters Dāvis Suharevskis, Agnese Cīrule and Gundars Āboliņš came to the premiere of the film Latgale. For the first time, local actors of smaller and larger roles, who filmed in Krāslava, Ludza, Piedruja, Rēzekne and Varakļāni, also appreciated their roles on the screen in Krāslava. In total, almost a thousand Latgale residents took part in the film. Māra Liniņa, the director of the film’s selection of actors, gratefully remembers that many of the participants of the mass audience were so enthusiastic that before filming they did not ask the usual questions about how long to film, whether to eat and what will happen.

After the premiere in Krāslava, several spectators shared their first impressions of what they saw. Poet Anna Rancāne appreciates that the film is laconic and the director has managed to “tell the story of Latgale-Latvian-world history without such big exaggerated emotions and pathos. There is no such ethnography in the film, and the Latgalian language is very organic there ”. After watching the film, Māris Susējs, the actor of Bite, said: “Kairišs talks about history with touches that will make people think.” And yet – the film reminds us that we should be grateful that we no longer live at that time and “in fact we do not have the right to chatter a lot”. Linguist and cultural historian Lidija Leikuma says about the director’s work: “He is a piglet. Getting all the density in such a short story so as not to have a depressing impression is a great success. Great success!”

Director Viesturs Kairišs also described his feelings after the film was handed over to Latvian audiences: “It was disturbing and extremely emotional to show the film in Kraslava. And to run it in people. Yes, above all a whole stage of his life, concentrated in a moment of less than two hours. May the film have a wonderful life, which began in the picturesque city of Latgale by the river. The river flowed into the bed of its own source. “

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Director Viesturs Kairišs has created a drama of historical relations about events in Latvia in the 1930s and 1940s together with his long-term creative partners – artist Ieva Jurjānis and cameraman Gints Bērziņš. The film produced by the studio “Ego Media” is financed by the National Film Center, as well as Lithuanian and Czech film institutions; supports the municipalities of Krāslava, Ludza, Rēzekne and other cities of Latgale, the distributor of the film in Latvia is “ACME Film”, which also participates in the financing of the film.