The Year Before the War

Year: 2021

Runtime: 95 mins

Language: Latvian

Director: Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.

Thriller

Stylized as a silent film, the story explores the political and philosophical tensions of 1913 through the journey of a young man known as Peter the Lett. Beginning with a mundane clerk job and a budding romance in Riga, he becomes entangled in a tragicomic and surreal race. His travels lead him to Vienna, where he prepares for a world revolution, then to Freud’s salon for psychoanalysis, and finally to Paris for a captivating encounter with Mata Hari.

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