The Year Before the War

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Stylized as silent cinema, the film connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of a new world. This mysterious adventurer, who was known as Peter the Lett, gets involved in a tragicomic and surreal race from a routine clerk job and a romantic passion in Riga to preparation of the world revolution in Vienna, psychoanalysis at Freud’s salon and seduction of Mata Hari in Paris.

  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release Date: 2021-11-17
  • Runtime: 95 min
  • Country: Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic
  • Language: Latvian, German, Russian, French
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 5
The Year Before the War poster