My Family Tree

My Family Tree

2013 lv 74 minutes

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Plot

A unique, engaging film that combines documentary footage with narrative cinema to tell the story of four generations of a Latvian family. Sixteen year-old student Jānis has been given an interesting homework assignment – to draw his family tree and explain it. The story of his family begins with his great-great-grandfather who burned down the manors of German landowners during the 1905 revolution. My Family Tree takes us on a journey to various countries and political regimes, showing Jānis’ ancestors to be people of diverse fates and life stories. A rich Latvian trader, a red rifleman loyal to Lenin, a carpenter with the KGB and war refugees in Sweden are only a few branches on his family tree, and the boy has heard something unusual and unforgettable about each and every one of these people.

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Cast

Harijs Spanovskis

Harijs Spanovskis

Andris Berzins

Andris Berzins

Inita Dzelme

Inita Dzelme

Artūrs Dīcis

Artūrs Dīcis

Edgars Petkevičs

Edgars Petkevičs

Juris Circenis

Juris Circenis

Guna Zariņa

Guna Zariņa

Kristaps Rasims

Kristaps Rasims

Aldis Siliņš

Aldis Siliņš

Ilze Akmentiņa

Ilze Akmentiņa

Jevgēnijs Isajevs

Jevgēnijs Isajevs

Marija Bērziņa

Marija Bērziņa

Gints Grāvelis

Gints Grāvelis

Ērika Eglija-Grāvele

Ērika Eglija-Grāvele

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