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Dawn (2015)

Dawn (2015)

Drama
Release Date: 2015, November 23
Directors: Laila Pakalnina
Countries: Estonia, Latvia, Poland
Production: Hargla Company, Staron Film
Cast: Andris Keišs, Gatis Gāga, Vilis Daudziņš, Ivars Brakovskis, Ģirts Krūmiņš, Guna Zariņa, Indra Briķe, Antons Georgs Grauds, Wiktor Zborowski, Āris Rozentāls, Liena Šmukste, Rūdolfs Plēpis

Overview:

Based on a Soviet propaganda story about Young Pioneer (the Soviet equivalent of a Boy Scout) Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers, at any expense. In our film, 75 years later, we call him little Janis. He is a Pioneer who lives on the Soviet collective farm “Dawn”. His father is an enemy of the farm (and the Soviet system) and plots against it. Little Janis betrays his father; his father takes revenge upon his son. Who then in this old Soviet tale is good and who is bad? This film reveals that a distorted brain is always dangerous. Even today.

Keywords:

woman director farm life