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The Rifleman (2019)

The Rifleman (2019)

Drama History War
Release Date: 2019, November 11
Directors: Dzintars Dreibergs
Countries: Latvia
Production: KULTFILMA
Cast: Jēkabs Reinis, Rēzija Kalniņa, Gatis Gāga, Raimonds Celms, Vilis Daudziņš, Oto Brantevics, Martins Vilsons, Ieva Florence-Vīksne, Renārs Zeltiņš, Grēta Trušiņa

Overview:

The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.

Keywords:

soldier patriotism world war i