Following the Swan Flock of Clouds

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Following the Swan Flock of Clouds (1957)

Directed by Pāvels Armands

Drama, History · 1h 19m

The first film in a duology based on the biography of Latvian revolutionary Jānis Fabricius. Mārtiņš Venta, the son of a forest ranger, enrolls in a Riga gymnasium and becomes an underground activist, while his classmate, Dace, a teacher's daughter, is expelled from the Riga school for singing the revolutionary song Kā gulbji balti padebeši iet. Dace becomes an actress, but Mārtiņš is drafted into the tsar's army. He refuses to participate in the shooting of a workers' demonstration and is sentenced to exile, but before his deportation, Mārtiņš is allowed to marry Dace in prison.

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Cast

Valdemārs Zandbergs Mārtiņš Vija Artmane Dace Jānis Kubilis Alberts Karps Klētnieks ārsts Astrīda Gulbe Juris Lejaskalns Zigrīda Stungure Lidija Freimane
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Austra Baldone Jānis Osis Arturs Dimiters Pēteris Cepurnieks

Crew

Director
Pāvels Armands
Writer
Jūlijs Vanags, Semyon Nagorny
Director of Photography
Vadims Mass
Editor
Vija Frijāre

Details

Original title
Kā gulbji balti padebeši iet
Release date
1957-08-08
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
Drama, History
Original language
LV
Spoken languages
Latvian, Russian
Countries
Soviet Union
Production
Rīgas kinostudija