The Mover (2018)
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Country:
Latvia
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Duration:
90 min
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Genre:
history, drama
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Director:
Dāvis Simanis
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Producer:
Gints Grūbe, Antra Gaile, Inese Boka
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Cast:
Artūrs Skrastiņš, Ilze Blauberga, Mihail Karasikov, Milena Gulbe
About film
This is the first Latvian film about the Holocaust and events of the German occupation. This is a story of Zanis Lipke, the Righteous Gentile. During the day he worked at the Luftwaffe warehouses, and at nights he became a smuggler. When the Nazi soldiers began murdering the citizens of Riga, he decided to take a desperate, mad, and very dangerous step. He led more than fifty men out of the ghetto right before the German guards’ eyes. Zanis created a refuge for them in his own house. What was the secret of Zanis Lipke’s selflessness: was it his thrill for adventure, his stubbornness, or simply his ability to act upon human instincts in inhuman conditions?
Rewards and nominations
- Latvian National Film Festival 2018 — Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design
- 41st Moscow International Film Festival — Russian Film Clubs Federation Award
Director
Dāvis Simanis, PhD Arts, is one of the most renowned Latvian filmmaker and theorist. He has directed several internationally awarded poetic documentary films as well as cross-genre features that have participated in number of major international festivals. His recent films include doc-fiction Escaping Riga (2014) and his first fiction feature Exiled (2016), which tells a tragic story about the fate of a remote mental institution in the times of World War I.
Along with
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Speaker:
Fedor Konstantinov
Along with
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Speaker:
Fedor Konstantinov
Trailer
Director
Dāvis Simanis, PhD Arts, is one of the most renowned Latvian filmmaker and theorist. He has directed several internationally awarded poetic documentary films as well as cross-genre features that have participated in number of major international festivals. His recent films include doc-fiction Escaping Riga (2014) and his first fiction feature Exiled (2016), which tells a tragic story about the fate of a remote mental institution in the times of World War I.
