The Shoe

Year: 1998

Runtime: 83 mins

Language: Latvian

Director: Laila Pakalnina

ComedyDrama

In the late 1950s, Soviet border patrols drive tractors along Latvia’s coastline each night, scanning for anyone who might have slipped in from the sea. At dawn, three officers uncover a lone woman’s shoe buried in the sand, with fresh footprints that head toward the small, picturesque town of Liepaja, hinting at a mysterious infiltration.

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