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A Million Folk Songs (2025)

Documentary · 25m

The film offers an audiovisual narrative of the making of the longest-running and most extensive publication in Latvian folklore—a project spanning over 70 years. What does it mean to “write down” folk songs? How does a song travel from oral tradition to the printed page? What ideological and financial challenges had to be overcome to publish the volumes? Through archival footage and scenes from the compilers’ everyday work, the film explores what it means to live with folk songs—told by the editors themselves.

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Cast

Crew

Writer
Toms Ķencis
Director of Photography
Krišjānis Pleiko
Editor
Krišjānis Pleiko

Details

Original title
Miljons tautasdziesmu
Release date
2025-05-03
Runtime
25m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
LV
Spoken languages
Latvian
Countries
Latvia