The read
It runs a compact 1h 27m.
Synopsis
Žanis Lipke, an ordinary blue-collar worker in Latvia, embarks on a covert operation. Despite his family’s hardship under successive Soviet and German occupations, Lipke tries to save local Jews from Nazi persecution and certain death, moving them from the Riga ghetto to an underground bunker hidden on his property.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.Director
- Matīss GricmanisScreenplay
- Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.Screenplay
Cast
- Artūrs SkrastiņšŽanis Lipke
- Ilze BlaubergaJohanna Lipke
- Matīss KipļuksZigis Lipke
- Mihails KarasikovsSmoļanskis
- Toms TreinisŠarja
- Steffen ScheumannLēmans
- Imants ErdmansVācu oficieris
- Madara PaegļkalnsMina
- Arnis OzolsBlūms
- Henrijs ArājsAlfrēds Lipke
- Elza AlberiņaAina Lipke