Plot Summary
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.
Movie Details
- Original Title
- Kā gulbji balti padebeši iet
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- lv
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Cast
Valdemārs Zandbergs
Mārtiņš
Vija Artmane
Dace
Jānis Kubilis
Alberts
Karps Klētnieks
ārsts
Astrīda Gulbe
Juris Lejaskalns
Zigrīda Stungure
Lidija Freimane
Austra Baldone
Jānis Osis
Arturs Dimiters
Pēteris Cepurnieks
Žanis Priekulis
Milda Klētniece
Hermanis Vazdiks
Martinsh Verdinsh
Oļģerts Krastiņš
Karlis Sebris
Harijs Liepiņš
Žanis Kopštāls
Production Companies
Rīgas kinostudija
