The Year Before the War

About The Year Before the War

Stylized as silent cinema, the film connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of a new world. This mysterious adventurer, who was known as Peter the Lett, gets involved in a tragicomic and surreal race from a routine clerk job and a romantic passion in Riga to preparation of the world revolution in Vienna, psychoanalysis at Freud’…

The Year Before the War (2021) is a thriller film directed by Dāvis Sīmanis Jr..

Petr Buchta, Inga Apine, Ģirts Ķesteris, and Lauris Dzelzītis lead the cast. It runs 95 minutes and was released in November 2021.

The screenplay is by Dāvis Sīmanis Jr. and Tabita Rudzāte. American members can watch it on IndiePix Unlimited Amazon Channel and Klassiki.