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Following the Swan Flock of Clouds

First aired on Aug 8, 1957

Runtime: 79 mins

90%

Genres: Drama, History

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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Valdemārs Zandbergs | Mārtiņš
Vija Artmane | Dace
Jānis Kubilis | Alberts
Karps Klētnieks | ārsts
Astrīda Gulbe |
Juris Lejaskalns |
Featured Crew
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Pāvels Armands | Director
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Jūlijs Vanags | Writer
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Semyon Nagorny | Writer
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Marģeris Zariņš | Music
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Herberts Līkums | Art Direction
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Vadims Mass | Director of Photography