Anita and her two children, daughter Santa and son Kristaps, live in an apartment in Riga in Latvia. Every year they celebrate New Year’s Eve with grandma and uncle Peter. As the years go by, the children grow up and life goes on, presidents give their New Year’s addresses, and The Irony of Fate is on TV again. Twelve years of birth, death, joy, hatred and potato salad - four evenings in the life of a family and in that of a nation from 1999 to 2012.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 35 min.
- Country, year
- Latvia, 2013
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Latvian
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Liene Linde
- Screenplay
- Liene Linde, Dainis Juraga
- Producers
- Amanda Boka
- Cinematography
- Dainis Juraga
- Music
- Edgars Mākens
- Cast
- Baiba Broka, Zane Aļļēna, Kārlis Tols, Antra Krūmiņa, Jānis Skanis
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Director
Liene Linde
Liene Linde was born in Latvia in 1986. She is a film director and film critic. In 2012 she graduated the Film Directing program from the Latvian Academy of Culture. She is working as a freelance film reviewer writing for several newspapers in Latvia. L. Linde has directected several documentaries and narrative shorts: Prologue for a Sad Chanson (2008), No Country for Catholics (2009), Renata. Story of a Choice (2010) etc.
