Blizzard of Souls poster
Screenplay Boris Frumin
Director Dzintars Dreibergs

Blizzard of Souls

Original Title: Dvēseļu putenis

Release Date: 2019-11-11

Duration: 124 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Ieva Florence-Vīksne
    Mirdza
  • Gatis Gāga
    Konrads
  • Martins Vilsons
    Vanags
  • Ivars Krasts
  • Oto Brantevics
    Arturs Vanags
  • Vilis Daudziņš
    Col. Sala
  • Raimonds Celms
    Edgars Vanags
  • Rēzija Kalniņa
    Mother
  • Jēkabs Reinis
    Mikelsons
  • Grēta Trušiņa
    Marta