Section: Children's Film

Paradīze '89

Paradise '89

Madara Dišlere

Latvia, Germany, 2018, 89 Min

Summer 1989: The sisters Paula and Laura visit their cousins in the countryside. Their mother is out of the house, the girls enjoy the freedom, play grownups and get into one or the other difficulty. The lightness of summer is mixed with the sensations of 1989 as Latvia approaches its independence.

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Without parental supervision, unimaginable freedom opens up for the four friends. The childish exuberance meets the "wind of change" in politics: The signs are on change, in the village, hopes, but also uncertainty spreads. Paula is convinced that if Latvia regains its independence, it will benefit everyone. So, she follows the call for a demonstration for the detachment of the Baltic States from the Soviet Union, the so-called "Baltic way". Intelligently edited, Madara Dišlere's feature film debut mixes coming-of-age, girl friendship, summer movie and political dawn. The historical background is the summer of 1989, when Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians joined together to form a more than 600-kilometer-long human chain to demonstrate for their freedom. AD

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / Colour

Drehbuch
Madara Dišlere

Kamera
Gints Bērziņš

Ton
Ernests Vaivods

Schnitt
Heike Parplies

Ausstattung
Aivars Žukovskis

Musik
Artūrs Liepiņš, Elviss Zants

Darsteller
Magda Lote Auziņa, Marta Ģertrūde Auzāne, Evelīna Ozola, Līva Ločmele, Guna Zariņa, Nauris Puntulis, Mantas Bendžius, Sergey Petrov, Inga Apine, Kristaps Ķeselis, Kaspars Gods

Produzent
Aija Bērziņa, Alise Ģelze

Produktion
Tasse Film

Co-Produktion
Bastei Media

Kontakt
Tasse Film
Alise Ģelze
Blaumana street 34-6
1011 Riga
Latvia
+37 12 615 63 56
alise@tasse.lv
www.tasse.lv

Madara Dišlere - born in 1980, she studied directing at the Latvian Academy of Culture in Riga. Since then she has worked both as a director and as a scriptwriter on foreign or her own projects. PARADISE '89 is her feature film debut.

Movies
THE POEM (2011, short)
VĒJŠ PELĒKĀS PRIEDES NOLAUZA (2013, short)
DĀRZNIEKS (2016, short)

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