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Release Date:
November 23, 2015
Original Title:
Ausma
Alternate Titles:
Dawn
Koit
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Hargla Company
Staron Film
Production Countries:
Estonia | Latvia | Poland
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 92
Based on a Soviet propaganda story about Young Pioneer (the Soviet equivalent of a Boy Scout) Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers, at any expense. In our film, 75 years later, we call him little Janis. He is a Pioneer who lives on the Soviet collective farm “Dawn”. His father is an enemy of the farm (and the Soviet system) and plots against it. Little Janis betrays his father; his father takes revenge upon his son. Who then in this old Soviet tale is good and who is bad? This film reveals that a distorted brain is always dangerous. Even today.
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Casting:
Gunita Groša
Costume Design:
Natalia Czeczott
Director:
Laila Pakalnina
Director of Photography:
Wojciech Staroń
Editor:
Kaspar Kallas
Gaffer:
Dominik Szczerbowicz
Makeup Artist:
Dzintra Bijubena
Music:
Vestards Šimkus
Producer:
Laila Pakalnina
Małgorzata Staroń
Kaspar Kallas
Production Design:
Jurģis Krāsons
Sound Director:
Anrijs Krenbergs
Writer:
Laila Pakalnina
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