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This award-winning Latvian feature film offers a gripping account of Zanis Lipke, a blue-collar worker honoured as one of the 'Righteous Among the Nations' for his heroic deeds during the war. Despite his family's hardship under successive Soviet and German occupations, Lipke embarked on a covert operation to save local Jews from Nazi persecution and certain death, moving them from the Riga ghetto to an underground bunker hidden on his property. From the start, filmmaker Davis Simanis creates a powerfully ominous and suspenseful atmosphere, positioning the viewer, like Lipke, as a reluctant eyewitness to unfolding horrors.
Original Release
05/19/2020
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Arturs Skrastins | Zanis Lipke / Žanis Lipke |
Ilze Blauberga | Johanna Lipke |
Matiss Kipluks | Zigis Lipke |
Henrijs Arajs | Alfrēds Lipke / Alfreds Lipke |
Elza Alberina | Aina Lipke |
Mihails Karasikovs | Smolanksy / Smoļanskis |
Toms Treinis | Šarja / Sarja |
Steffen Scheumann | Lemans / Lēmans |
Imants Erdmans | German Officer / Vācu oficieris |
Madara Paeglkalns | Mina |
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Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Arturs Skrastins | Zanis Lipke / Žanis Lipke |
Ilze Blauberga | Johanna Lipke |
Matiss Kipluks | Zigis Lipke |
Henrijs Arajs | Alfrēds Lipke / Alfreds Lipke |
Elza Alberina | Aina Lipke |
Mihails Karasikovs | Smolanksy / Smoļanskis |
Toms Treinis | Šarja / Sarja |
Steffen Scheumann | Lemans / Lēmans |
Imants Erdmans | German Officer / Vācu oficieris |
Madara Paeglkalns | Mina |
Arnis Ozols | Blums / Blūms |
Armands Ikalis | |
Lauma Balode | Jewish woman |
Signe Birkova | |
Martins Grauds | |
Dainis Grube | Frics |
Milena Gulbe | |
Leonids Lencs |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Antra Gaile | Executive Producer |
Antra Gaile | Producer |
Asaf Koksal | Producer |
François Jerômes | Producer |