Ivars Krasts

Based on the true story of Melanija Vanaga, this film is a brutally realistic and terrifying account of the mass deportation of residents of Soviet-occupied Latvia that took place in June 1941. At the outset, Melanie and her husband are arrested and forcibly separated at gunpoint and loaded into cattle cars. Melanie spends 16 years in a Siberian prison camp before learning of her husband's fate.

Pays stark witness to the horrors and brutality of the First World War through the eyes of an innocent Latvian 17-year-old farm-boy-turned soldier.

From inside a Latvian psychiatric hospital, a passionate rock-and-roll fan builds a subversive operation that challenges authority and celebrates freedom. From Walter Presents, in Latvian with English subtitles.