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The Children of Siberia (2001)
Directed by Dzintra Geka-Vaska
Documentary · 53m
On June 14, 1941, more than 15,000 Latvian inhabitants, including approximately 4,000 children of Latvian, Jewish, Polish and Russian ethnicity were deported to Siberia. During this period of deportation by the Soviet invaders, the men were separated from their families and sent to the Gulag. Some were sentenced to the highest punishment, death, and the rest were kept in labor camps. The women and children were sent to the remote Krasnoyarsk and Tomsk districts. The first two years were the most difficult and many perished from the harsh conditions. Today some 400 of those deported children still live in Latvia and Siberia. This documentary describes the fate of these children.
Crew
- Director
- Dzintra Geka-Vaska
- Writer
- Dzintra Geka-Vaska
- Original Music Composer
- Arturs Maskats, Pēteris Vasks
- Editor
- Armands Zvirbulis
- Producer
- Dzintra Geka-Vaska
Details
- Original title
- Sibīrijas bērni
- Release date
- 2001-06-14
- Runtime
- 53m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- LV
- Countries
- Latvia
- Production
- Latvijas Televizija