The Year Before the War

The Year Before the War

95 mins | Thriller | Nov. 17, 2021

Stylized as silent cinema, the film connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of a new world. This mysterious adventurer, who was known as Peter the Lett, gets involved in a tragicomic and surreal race from a routine clerk job and a romantic passion in Riga to preparation of the world revolution in Vienna, psychoanalysis at Freud’s salon and seduction of Mata Hari in Paris.

The Year Before the War

95 mins | Thriller | Nov. 17, 2021

The Year Before the War
Stylized as silent cinema, the film connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of a new world. This mysterious adventurer, who was known as Peter the Lett, gets involved in a tragicomic and surreal race from a routine clerk job and a romantic passion in Riga to preparation of the world revolution in Vienna, psychoanalysis at Freud’s salon and seduction of Mata Hari in Paris.
IMDb rating 5.0
Producers Produkce Radim Procházka, Locomotive Productions, Studio Uljana Kim
Original title Gads pirms kara
Directors Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.
Writers Uldis Tīrons, Tabita Rudzāte, Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.