Storyline
The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.
Cast & Crew
Oto Brantevics
Arturs Vanags
Lead
Vilis Daudziņš
Col. Sala
Ivars Krasts
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Gatis Gāga
Konrads
Martins Vilsons
Vanags
Rēzija Kalniņa
Mother
Raimonds Celms
Edgars Vanags
Jēkabs Reinis
Mikelsons
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Dzintars Dreibergs's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Rifleman is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
