Dawn
Ausma
Release: 2015-11-23
·Runtime: 92m
·★ 7.3
Drama
Based on a Soviet propaganda story about Young Pioneer (the Soviet equivalent of a Boy Scout) Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers, at any expense. In our film, 75 years later, we call him little Janis. He is a Pioneer who lives on the Soviet collective farm “Dawn”. His father is an enemy of the farm (and the Soviet system) and plots against it. Little Janis betrays his father; his father takes revenge upon his son. Who then in this old Soviet tale is good and who is bad? This film reveals that a distorted brain is always dangerous. Even today.
Production Countries
Estonia
Latvia
Poland
Production Companies
Hargla Company
Staron Film
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Andris Keišs
as Jekabs Kalnins
Guna Zariņa
as Little Janis' Mother
Mārcis Maņjakovs
as Militia
Artis Drozdovs
as Young Communist Ivars
Wiktor Zborowski
as Karl Ivanovitš
Pēteris Liepiņš
as Neighbour
Vilis Daudziņš
as Little Janis' Father
Āris Rozentāls
as Karl Ivanovitš (voice)
Ģirts Krūmiņš
as Joosep Ozolin
Gatis Gāga
as Karl Ivanovitš's Assistant
Liena Šmukste
as Mirdza Ozolina
Ivars Brakovskis
as Doctor
Indra Briķe
as Brigadier
Rūdolfs Plēpis
as Narrator
Uldis Lieldidzs
as Teacher
