Escaping RigaMovie
The film is based on true events, it tells the stories of two outstanding personalities of the 20th century – Sergei Eisenstein and Isaiah Berlin, who were both born and spent their childhood in Riga but soon had to leave the city. The film follows the lives of the two characters during the turbulent first half of the 20th century, telling how one of them becomes “the greatest film director of his generation” in the totalitarian Soviet Union, and the other “the greatest thinker of his generation” in liberal Great Britain.
About Escaping Riga
Escaping Riga is a 2014 documentary movie directed by Dāvis Sīmanis Jr..
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 10m, production credits from Latvia, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Gustavs Briedis, Gints Grūbe, Mihails Karasikovs, Viktors Puglejevs. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
