“Always ready!” – the film “My favorite war” goes to the audience / Article / LSM.lv

Honestly, without pathos, very emotional. Through personal memories of the collective. These are the first conclusions of Latvian viewers about the animated documentary “My Favorite War” by director Ilze Burkovska-Jakobsen. Three months after winning one of the world’s most prestigious animation film festivals, it has had its Latvian premiere.

It took almost 10 years for director Ilze Burkovska-Jakobsen’s personal and very open story about growing up in the Cold War to celebrate the Latvian premiere at the Splendid Palace cinema. Until then, the Latvian-Norwegian co-production, the full-length animated documentary “My Favorite War”, has already achieved international success – victory at the prestigious Annecy Animated Film Festival in France.

“After all, the mood is exactly what I wanted it to be; maybe I had to work a lot with those rational points through episodes, concrete facts, emotional development in the film to complete it, ”says Ilze Burkovska-Jakobsen, the film’s director. “The idea for the film came to me from reading war stories, I thought why it is that we are in the middle of some great powers, great powers, armies have come on the one hand and on the other for centuries, and it seemed unfair to me that we never we do not pay attention to the experience of the civilian population in it. “

Actress and the film’s voice behind the scenes Anta Krūmiņa says:

“It’s worth working so many years to make such a film. The whole period she was able to put into this film. ”

The first Latvian viewers have already managed to appreciate the film.

Film and theater director Viesturs Kairišs evaluates after the premiere: “The film is very emotional, and I am glad that a stylistically complicated work on this topic has been shown, and in my opinion, it is the animation technique that I really like it because we all took part in it, I was both October and a pioneer. ”

“In general, I really like that someone is able to talk about history from such a personal angle, and it gives a completely different view. This perhaps deprives them of their pathos and exaggerated patriotism when they show the experience of the extremely complex and deep conflicts that are within us in our time, ”says film director Alise Zariņa.

“I think part of watching a movie here in Latvia will say – yes, it’s about me, and also when watching in Lithuania, someone will say – it’s about me, and we had such a class teacher – yes, it’s my teacher , ”Comments Ilga Ķuze, the heroine of the film.

Film director Ivars Zviedris notes after the premiere: “I felt the film from a human point of view, from a professional point of view – a good montage, and off the hat – Ilze is lucky or completely unlucky with her family.

The cinema story about the time when you had to stand in line in a butter shop, when children learned skills useful for war and the sea shore was closed to the population, will be on screens all over Latvia on September 25.

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