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“My friend – a frivolous person” is one of Dzintars Dreibergs’ favorite films of all time, which does not lose its wit and topicality – its language worked both then and now and is also associated with today’s choices. Jānis Streičs is ready to share the secrets of his position in the video story series – how to get it ready.
Jānis Streičs has a lot of enthusiasm and a unique language in his story. With the active involvement of the old master, three shorter and three more detailed videos have been made, which any Latvian cinema lover, cinema enthusiast and professional will be happy to listen to.
In the story of the selection of actors, Jānis Streičs shares crucial moments in the selection process – it turns out that the director had originally intended completely different actors instead of Jānis Paukštello and Ēvalds Valters. In the story of working with children and improvisation, he reveals the techniques he has used to work with each person, whether he is an influential theater actress or a small child. In the process of selecting actors, one child was sought, but the film ‘s little characters – the Liepiņi brothers – both got into roles because they “bought” the film’ s team with their naturalness.
In his story about language and humor, Jānis Streičs reveals that he did not plan funny episodes, because they arise in the subconscious of the audience, from the truth. The director also knows how to tell where the fault lies, why the actors speak unnaturally in the films.
The video series was created with the support of the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Latvian State Archive of Film and Photophono Documents. The producers of the program are “Avantis” and “Kulfilma”. The full video series can be viewed on LMT Smart TV, in the application LMT Straume and on the Internet, where there are also three more materials about the film “My Friend – A Serious Man”. They tell about the preparation for filming and the process of making a film, film editing, recording and censorship in the USSR.
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