Well there are things that I want to add to all these comments. In context of Latvian cinematography this movie is not an average movie. Of course acting could be better, plot could be better too but this was a movie someone actually cared to watch. The tale deserved to be told, the 1940s mood was shown quite good and the tragedy of Latvia's people also. I mean, there wasn't any big bloodshed at all but these tanks, Latvian flag going down, patriotic colonel committing suicide and most importantly the last scene said it all. This was nice movie- something fresh, something technically well made. Somehow Latvian movies mostly are made for international cinema festivals, not for the average viewer. But when it's so no one actually cares about Latvian cinema and people who make movies complains that no one watches their pseudo-intellectual masterpieces. This movie was good but not great and European TV producers also have expressed the same views. And it actually showed that people go to see Latvian movies if they see that there is something interesting.
Review of Baiga vasara
