The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World Battle. After shedding his mom and his residence, he finds some comfort in becoming a member of the military, as a result of that is the primary time nationwide battalions are allowed within the Russian Empire. However warfare is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no equity. It’s brutal and painful. Arturs is now fully alone as warfare takes the lives of his father and brother. Additionally, no progress is made within the promised fast decision of the warfare and well timed return residence. Inside the notion that solely he alone cares about returning residence and that his homeland is only a playground for different nations, Arturs finds power for the ultimate battle and finally returns residence to start out the whole lot from scratch, identical to his newly born nation.
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Movie Forged:
- Arturs Vanags: Oto Brantevics
- Col. Sala: Vilis Daudziņš
- …: Ivars Krasts
- Konrads: Gatis Gāga
- Vanags: Martins Vilsons
- Mom: Rēzija Kalniņa
- Edgars Vanags: Raimonds Celms
- Mikelsons: Jēkabs Reinis
- Mirdza: Ieva Florence-Vīksne
- Spilva: Renārs Zeltiņš
- Marta: Grēta Trušiņa
Movie Crew:
- Manufacturing Design: Juris Žukovskis
- Stunt Coordinator: Artem Grigoryev
- Third Assistant Director: Kristaps Krūmiņš
- Screenplay: Boris Frumin
- Director: Dzintars Dreibergs
- Producer: Inga Praņevska
- Conductor: Lolita Ritmanis
- Writer: Aleksandrs Grīns
- Script Marketing consultant: Valdis Celmiņš
- Assistant Make-up Artist: Santa Sandule
- Casting: Gunita Groša
- Continuity: Anna Jurevica
- Assistant Make-up Artist: Ieva Sebre
- Make-up Artist: Dzintra Bijubene
- Music Producer: Mark Mattson
- Assistant Make-up Artist: Alīna Blinkova
- Continuity: Rinalds Zelts
- Script Marketing consultant: Miguel Machalski
- Editor: Gatis Belogrudovs
- Costume Design: Sandra Sila
- Animal Coordinator: Daina Luksa
- Grip: Viktors Besaraba
- Script Editor: Ligita Lukstraupe
- Second Assistant Director: Gatis Ungurs
- Digital Imaging Technician: Maris Zommers
- Grip: Elvijs Menniks
- Particular Results Technician: Andrejs Deicmanis
- Manufacturing Supervisor: Gatis Kelle
- Key Grip: Andris Pudans
- Grip: Viesturs Strelcs
- Casting Assistant: Beatrise Zake
- Particular Results Technician: Aigars Rošāns
- Storyboard Artist: Margarita Turauska
- Casting Assistant: Guntis Veilands
- Particular Results Technician: Druvis Vectirāns
- Army Marketing consultant: Ziedonis Ločmelis
- Script Marketing consultant: Karen Lee Road
- Artwork Course: Jānis Kalniņš
- Assistant Costume Designer: Aija Strazdina
- Script Editor: Martins Slisans
- Digital Imaging Technician: Jānis Jozauskis
- Particular Results Technician: Mikus Bevalds
- Casting Assistant: Marta Dzene
- Assistant Costume Designer: Gita Peta
- First Assistant Director: Gundars Jakobsons
- Steadicam Operator: Artūrs Lūriņš
- Particular Results Technician: Pēteris Kalniņš
- Weapons Grasp: Vladislavs Dombrovskis
- First Assistant Digicam: Jānis Indriks
- Second Assistant Digicam: Miks Ramāns
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Robert Slezák
- Digicam Operator: Jānis Jurkovskis
- First Assistant Digicam: Rolands Zelders
- Digital Compositor: Mihail Matvejenko
- Props: Sandris Jaudzems
- Growth Operator: Edgars Doma
- Sound Mixer: Mārtiņš Rozentāls
- Sound Assistant: Lukáš Ujčík
- Growth Operator: Pēteris Pāss
- Growth Operator: Nauris Būda
- Visible Results Supervisor: Māris Āboliņš
- Foley Artist: Andrea Veselková
- Sound Recordist: Verners Biters
- Gaffer: Juris Zemītis
- Second Assistant Digicam: Ivars Trautmanis
- Make-up & Hair: Aija Beata Rjabovska
- Digital Compositor: Aigars Gercans
- Costumer: Dace Rozlapa
- Transportation Coordinator: Janis Pavlovskis
- Costumer: Katriona Luize Rozlapa
- Costumer: Petra Gluskova
- Costumer: Gita Kalvane
- Costumer: Marta Grase
- Costumer: Gustavs Berzins
- Costumer: Irena Vorkale
- Digital Compositor: Renars Belousovs
- Costumer: Arturs Zeps
- Foley Artist: Zdeněk Dušek
- Sound Designer: Aleksandrs Vaicahovskis
- Digital Compositor: Andris Pakalns
- Foley Recordist: Petr Kapeller
- 3D Artist: Dmitrijs Maslakpvs
- Stunt Coordinator: Romans Morozovs
- Location Supervisor: Laura Cīrule
- Third Assistant Director: Uģis Olte
- Lighting Coordinator: Daira Gruntmane
- Electrician: Reinis Jansons
- Location Supervisor: Ieva Ansevica
- Location Supervisor: Katrina Tomasika
- Third Assistant Director: Madara Dišlere
- On-line Editor: Kriss Rozins
- Rotoscoping Artist: Bibek Srestha
Film Critiques:
- MovieGuys: Primarily based on the e-book by the identical title, Blizzard of Souls, is an perception into Latvia’s tragic wartime previous.
- Set throughout WWI, Blizzard of Souls, presents an un-glamorous perception into the horror of warfare. The obsessive militarism and nationalism of the interval, fail to mitigate wars actuality. That’s, the lack of harmless life.
- The emotional deadening of the person, exacted by warfare, compounds time and again, with every successive private loss skilled by the primary character, Arturs. By the tip of the movie, warfare has consumed Arturs life, changing into all defines him and in a tragic irony, the lives of younger recruits, he leads into battle.
- Battle is hell, warfare is dehumanising, warfare is the dying of the self. Greater than that, it doesn’t matter which political ideology you struggle for, the result is identical.
- By way of remedy this movie is huge on lavish settings and cinematic aptitude. There’s actual immersion right here into the world of Artur’s. From household settings to battle scenes, this can be a visually spectacular work. Nicely crafted sequences come up which have a dream like high quality. On this respect, this can be a exceptional movie.
- What is just not so exceptional is character improvement. You by no means actually get to see far more than small emotional parts, of every character. This remedy tends to depart the movie feeling unemotional. A vibe that’s considerably at odds, with its inherently humanistic context. Maybe that is carried out on objective, to specific additional the impersonal nature of warfare? The way it robs folks of significant private bonds and improvement? In that case, its a bit of overdone and extra character improvement, would actually have benefited the emotional influence, of this movie.
- In abstract, visually exceptional, immersive however doesn’t fairly reside as much as the humanistic ambitions, it units for itself. The tragic, emotional influence of movies like All Quiet on the Western Entrance, is just not fairly achieved. Nonetheless this effectively rendered movie stays yet one more, damning assertion, on the cruelty and horror, of warfare.
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