DEFENDERS OF RIGA
[Rigas sargi]

In Person: Writer/Director Aigars Grauba at Nov. 18 screening;
Celebrate Latvian Independence Day on Nov. 18 with a post-screening reception courtesy of the Embassy of Latvia!

Latvia's Official Oscar Submission for Best Foreign Language Film

This Latvian box-office sensation relates the events of 1919, just after the conclusion of WWI, when a ragtag group of Latvian veterans and volunteers turned back a renegade platoon of German soldiers and White Russian mercenaries from reconquering the fledgling nation. The biggest budgeted film in Latvian history has become the all-time Latvian box-office champion. See it on Nov. 18, Latvian Independence Day!

DIR/SCR Aigars Grauba; SCR Andrejs Ekis, Valentin Jemeljanov, Lisa Eichhorn based on the story by Andris Kolbergs; PROD Lisa Eichhorn, Andrejs Ekis. Latvia, 2008, color, 118 min. In Latvian, German, Russian, English and French with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Sunday, November 16, 8:30; Tuesday, November 18, 7:00

Tickets reserved and purchased online must be retrieved in person at the AFI Silver box office. The same credit card used online must be presented to the cashier to redeem your tickets.



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