'A Totally Crazy, Passionate Journey': How the Latvian Film Industry Rose From the Post-Soviet Rubble to Arrive on the World Stage
When a young Viesturs Kairiss started to dream about becoming a filmmaker thirty-some-odd years ago, he knew his path wouldn’t be straightforward or easy. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, aspiring Latvian directors would have to travel to Moscow or St. Petersburg to enroll in venerable Soviet film schools. After independence, Kairiss was among […]
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