My Family Tree

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2013 / 74min.

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Genres

Drama

Family

History

Synopsis

A unique, engaging film that combines documentary footage with narrative cinema to tell the story of four generations of a Latvian family. Sixteen year-old student Jānis has been given an interesting homework assignment – to draw his family tree and explain it. The story of his family begins with his great-great-grandfather who burned down the manors of German landowners during the 1905 revolution. My Family Tree takes us on a journey to various countries and political regimes, showing Jānis’ ancestors to be people of diverse fates and life stories. A rich Latvian trader, a red rifleman loyal to Lenin, a carpenter with the KGB and war refugees in Sweden are only a few branches on his family tree, and the boy has heard something unusual and unforgettable about each and every one of these people.

Directors

Una Celma

Actors

Harijs Spanovskis

Gints Grāvelis

Artūrs Dīcis

Guna Zariņa

Marija Bērziņa

Andris Berzins

Aldis Siliņš

Ilze Akmentiņa

Jevgēnijs Isajevs

Ērika Eglija-Grāvele

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