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Release Date:
December 1, 2019
Original Title:
Valkātājs
Alternate Titles:
Valkātājs
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Documentarian
Production Countries:
Latvia
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 69
An absurd game of “finding happiness” is being played by local Latvian coyotes* and illegal immigrants on the Russian and the European Union border. It is a game with no winner – all participants are driven to play by the sense of despair. While one side leaves home and undertakes a perilous journey to the other side of the globe, hoping to spend the rest of their lives in a free country, the other side risks their freedom to earn a chance to stay right where they are, in their homeland. *coyote – someone who smuggles illegal immigrants
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Art Designer:
Jānis Blanks
Director:
Ivars Zviedris
Director of Photography:
Haralds Ozols
Ivars Zviedris
Editor:
Haralds Ozols
Music:
Otto Auniņš
Toms Auniņš
Producer:
Ivars Zviedris
Marta Bite
Sound Editor:
Ģirts Bišs
Writer:
Haralds Ozols
Ivars Zviedris
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