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After losing his mother and his home, Arturs finds some consolation in joining the army. However, war is nothing like he imagined. this is the highest grossing Latvian film in decades and the first narrative feature from documentary director Dzintars Dreibergs. Based on the novel by Aleksandrs Grīns describing his experience as a rifleman in World War I, and later in the Latvian War of Independence, it’s a film that tells the expected “war is hell” narrative but expands beyond that to explore a story of growth, both in its protagonist and in the greater Latvian people.
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After losing his mother and his home, Arturs finds some consolation in joining the army. However, war is nothing like he imagined. this is the highest grossing Latvian film in decades and the first narrative feature from documentary director Dzintars Dreibergs. Based on the novel by Aleksandrs Grīns describing his experience as a rifleman in World War I, and later in the Latvian War of Independence, it’s a film that tells the expected “war is hell” narrative but expands beyond that to explore a story of growth, both in its protagonist and in the greater Latvian people.
and now on booktv encore booknotes. in 1989 susan moeller sat down to discuss the impact of photojournalism on war coverage. in her book shooting war photography and the american experience of combat. you can watch the encore c-span: susan moeller, this is the cover of your book as you can see, shooting war: photography and the american experience of combat. what is this photograph and why did you choose it? guest: it s a photograph of a photographer. it s a self-portrait actually taken during the vietnam war in 1968 probably the critical year during the vietnam war. and it seemed appropriate for the book because this is a book about war photography. but it s also a book about how war photography came to be so important to americans. and so it seemed interesting and critical to have that sort of duality. a picture of a war scene that itself had the photographer in it. c-span: who s the photographer? guest: minium domcoum. c-span: why did you pick him? guest: wel