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In 1937, silent film star Maria Leiko travels to USSR upon learning of the birth of her granddaughter. But when she discovers the tragic circumstances of that event, KGB agents persuade her to remain in the country. Leiko abandons her cinema career to instead join Skatuve, the Latvian State Theatre in Moscow. Soon she discovers that she is being manipulated by the government amid its purges of political enemies. As a network of traitors, informers, and NKVD agents surround her, she must choose between family and career, and between her ideals and the lies of Stalin’s totalitarian regime.Read moreLess
In 1937, silent film star Maria Leiko travels to USSR upon learning of the birth of her granddaughter. But when she discovers the tragic circumstances of that event, KGB agents persuade her to remain in the country. Leiko abandons her cinema career to instead join Skatuve, the Latvian State Theatre in Moscow. Soon she discovers that she is being manipulated by the government amid its purges of political enemies. As a network of traitors, informers, and NKVD agents surround her, she must choose between family and career, and between her ideals and the lies of Stalin’s totalitarian regime.
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In 1937, silent film star Maria Leiko travels to USSR upon learning of the birth of her granddaughter. But when she discovers the tragic circumstances of that event, KGB agents persuade her to remain in the country. Leiko abandons her cinema career to instead join Skatuve, the Latvian State Theatre in Moscow. Soon she discovers that she is being manipulated by the government amid its purges of political enemies. As a network of traitors, informers, and NKVD agents surround her, she must choose between family and career, and between her ideals and the lies of Stalin’s totalitarian regime.
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Artūrs SkrastiņšJekabs Peterss
Vilis DaudziņšOsvalds Glaznieks
Inese Kučinska-LaukšteineAnna Lacis
Ģirts ĶesterisLeonids Zakovskis
Gatis MaliksActor of the Theatre Troupe 'Skatuve'Explore the crew
- Writer
- Magali Negroni
- Producer
- Inese Boka-Grūbe
- Original Music Composer
- Paulius Kilbauskas
- Director of Photography
- Andrejs Rudzāts
- Director
- Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.
- Writer
- Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.
- Writer
- Tabita Rudzāte
- Producer
- Gints Grūbe
- Editor
- Ieva Veiverytė