Stylized as silent cinema, the film connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of a new world. This mysterious adventurer, who was known as Peter the Lett, gets involved in a tragicomic and surreal race from a routine clerk job and a romantic passion in Riga to preparation of the world revolution in Vienna, psychoanalysis at Freud’s salon and seduction of Mata Hari in Paris.
Director: Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.
Director of Photography: Andrejs Rudzāts
Writer: Uldis Tīrons, Tabita Rudzāte, Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.
Producer: Roberts Vinovskis
The Year Before the War – trailer | IFFR 2021