A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
January 1, 2016
Original Title:
Tēvi tur
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Sibīrijas bērni
Production Countries:
Latvia
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 63
Andris Caune, Ojārs Grensbergs, Imants Grāvītis and Jānis Zemtautis spent many years in the Gulag camps. They survived. In 1954, a riot broke out in Jezkazan, Kazakhstan. The men’s camp and women’s camp joined together and held on for 40 days. Then came the tanks that killed more than 1,000 of them. Austra Vērpe met her future husband there. They were lucky to stay alive. The dream of the musician Zigfrīds Muktupāvels was to find the grave of his paternal uncle in far-off Kazakhstan. He was named after his uncle, who never came home. Zigfrīds and a cousin headed off into the steppes to look for a monument reading “Zigfrīds Muktupāvels.” The next round of deportations occurred in 1949, and whole families were sent to Siberia. Fathers were tried in court, a great many ended up in punitive camps in Vorkuta and Inta. Skaidrīte Jostmane and Māris Landers travelled to Vorkuta to find their father’s gravesite.
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Director:
Dzintra Geka-Vaska
Director of Photography:
Aivars Lubānietis
Viktors Grībermans
Editor:
Armands Zvirbulis
Music:
Pēteris Vasks
Producer:
Dzintra Geka-Vaska
Sound Director:
Armands Zvirbulis
Writer:
Ēriks Lanss
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