Tuesday 4 October, at the cinema “Splendid Palace“, the premiere of the new film” Peasants “from the classic domestic documentary Ivars Seleckas was celebrated.
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Director Ivars Selectis he is the oldest active Latvian film classicist, who has been documenting the Latvian countryside and people in films for 50 years, which later became testimonies of the time. The film “Peasants” also portrays Latvia and its people in the 21st century. The premiere of the film was also attended by many famous Latvian documentary makers and acting cinemas: Miks Zvirbulis, Laima Žurgina, Tālivaldis Margēvičs, Andrejs Apsītis, Ivars Zviedris, Valdis Eglītis, Ieva Romānova, as well as Latvian filmmakers of various generations.
The film “Peasants” will have its international premiere at the largest European IDFA documentary film forum in Amsterdam, which runs from 9 to 20 November.
The documentary film “Peasants” portrays six different families and shows the diversity of the Latvian countryside in the 21st century. The characters in the film chose to live on farms, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, for very different reasons. Some no longer wanted to spend their lives in an office, in traffic jams and in a virtual world, they wanted something real and true. Some decided to move to the countryside alone, while others had to go with their families. But they are all united by the desire for stability, provided by their land and their home. Together with our heroes – the Alderson, Bartkevič, Grāpaj, Kaupuž, Krivtež and Rechtšprecher families, we will spend a one-year life cycle as a farmer, starting with spring sowing and ending with autumn harvest and soil preparation for next year .
Opening the premiere of “Splendid Palace”, Ivars Seleckis recalled a story from his childhood: “We had a cow, called Gauja. A cow like a cow, but when the yuk times started, the cow took on enormous value. And when we had it to go out quickly at night, a tank battle was approaching, it was 1944, July, we moved from the countryside to Riga and the cow was with us, he lived near the “Splendid Palace”, in the house where the president lives. There was a German garage in the yard and that cow was housed there. Genetically, we come from farmers. “
The film “Peasants” was shot in the studio “Mistrus Media”, where Ivars Seleckis has already shot the film “Continuation”, the short film “Kipsala” and is currently working on a new film with the characters of “Continuation” after seven years . In the film “Peasants”, director Ivars Seleckis worked with a group of filmmakers from several generations in his nearly 88 years – the screenwriters are Andris Vanadziņš and the social anthropologist Dace Dzenovska, the chief cameraman Valdis Celminņš, the composer Kārlis Auzāns, the editor Armands Začs, the sound director Ernests Ansons, the producers Gints Grūbe and Elīna Gediņa-Ducena, the executive producer Annija Korpa.
The film can be seen in Latvian cinemas in early October, as well as meetings with directors at various screenings.
