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.
Boris Frumin
Screenplay
Dzintars Dreibergs
Producer
Inga Praņevska
Producer
Lolita Ritmanis
Original Music Composer
Dzintars Dreibergs
Director
Valdis Celmiņš
Director of Photography
Oto Brantevics
Arturs Vanags
Vilis Daudziņš
Col. Sala
Ivars Krasts
Gatis Gāga
Konrads
Martins Vilsons
Vanags
Rēzija Kalniņa
Mother
Raimonds Celms
Edgars Vanags
Jēkabs Reinis
Mikelsons
Ieva Florence-Vīksne
Mirdza
Renārs Zeltiņš
Spilva
Grēta Trušiņa
Marta
