The Year Before the War - 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.

95min
2021
Released
Trakio rating0.0/10
IMDB rating5.0/10

About The Year Before the War

The Year Before the War Overview

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.

Runtime: 95min

Extra details

Original Title: Gads pirms kara
Original Language: Latvian
Directed By: Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.
Production Companies
Studio Uljana KimProdukce Radim ProcházkaLocomotive Productions