Review: Maria's Silence - Cineuropa
19/02/2024 - BERLINALE 2024: Dāvis Sīmanis’s film is rich in historical references and complex visual poeticism, yet it’s one of his most classical fictions to date
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19/02/2024 - BERLINALE 2024: Dāvis Sīmanis’s film is rich in historical references and complex visual poeticism, yet it’s one of his most classical fictions to date
Film studio MISTRUS MEDIA presents Maria’s Silence - a film by Dāvis Sīmanis Logline The true story of Maria Leiko, a famous actress who struggles wit...
Dāvis Sīmanis film “Maria’s Silence” will have its world premiere at the Berlinale - The official program of the 74th Berlin International Film Festiv...
14/12/2023 - The Latvian-Lithuanian picture, playing in the Forum section, is based on the true story of silent-movie star and theatre actress Marija Leiko
(The article continues below - Commercial information) Sīmanis, together with writers Tabita Rudzāte and Uldis Tīrons, chooses to tell an incredible story set in the year preceding the outbreak of World War I, in a world that is about to be radically transformed by new systems and ideologies. The whole plot revolves around the journey of a Latvian man, Peter (Czech thesp Petr Buchta), who always claims that his name is Hans, and we initially see him working as a doorman in Riga. His more or less casual wanderings lead him to become embroiled in the revolutionary plans of communists, ana...