Movie Details
Movie Budget:$20,000
Original Language:Latvian
Production Companies:Deep Sea Studios
Cast & Crew
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Andrejs Rudzāts
Director of Photography
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Agita Cāne-Ķīle
Director
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Daira Āboliņa
Writer
One Hundred Years Older
13 minDocumentary
What happens in the eyes of a 100yearold filmmaker Rolands Kalniņš one of the great masters of Latvian cinema sits down to have his photo taken and looks straight in the lens Kalniņš life has spanned an authoritarian regime a world war long years under Soviet occupation and censorship and retirement in independent Latvia His films have been censored destroyed found and restored But here like Herz Frank once did with a child for ten minutes we shall observe the microemotions of a man who has dedicated his life to film Confronted directly by the tool of his trade the camera As we face Kalniņš eye to eye we hear the sounds of his present and the memories of his past