The read
Scores higher than 72% of the 373 2010s war movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.
Ratings
202 audience votes
Key crew
- Dzintars DreibergsDirector
- Boris FruminScreenplay
- Lolita RitmanisOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Oto BrantevicsArturs Vanags
- Vilis DaudziņšCol. Sala
- Ivars KrastsCast
- Gatis GāgaKonrads
- Martins VilsonsVanags
- Rēzija KalniņaMother
- Raimonds CelmsEdgars Vanags
- Jēkabs ReinisMikelsons
- Ieva Florence-VīksneMirdza
- Renārs ZeltiņšSpilva
- Grēta TrušiņaMarta
