Dāvis Sīmanis Jr. — Director (4)

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玛丽亚的沉默 (2024)
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小达维斯·西曼尼斯 actor: Olga Šepicka-Slapjuma / Arturs Skrastins …
other title: Marijas klusums / Maria’s Silence
A powerful historical drama based on the true story of Maria Leiko, famous actress who late in her career has to decide between fame and love for her grandchild, between her ideals or the lies of Stalin’s totalitarian regime.

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The Mover (2018)
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Davis Simanis Jr. actor: Dainis Grube / Arturs Skrastins …
other title: 转移者 / Tēvs Nakts …
Žanis Lipke, an ordinary blue-collar worker in Latvia, embarks on a covert operation. Despite his family’s hardship under successive Soviet and German occupations, Lipke tries to save local Jews from Nazi persecution and certain death, moving them from the Riga ghetto to an underground bunker hidden on his property.

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Exiled (2016)
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other title: 放逐 / Pelnu sanatorija
据历史故事改编,由戴维斯·西曼尼斯执导,讲述了德国军医乌尔里希在拉脱维亚偏远地区的精神疗养院任职期间找回自我的故事。距第一次世界大战结束还有一年,乌尔里希受命前往该精神疗养院开展工作。任职期间,他想要重建疗养院,却意外遇到一个神秘的孤儿,这个孤儿生活在疗养院附近的森林里。乌尔里希在这片森林里、这片净土中逐渐找回自我,而这片净土最终也将为反抗战争做出最后的努力。导演通过影片想要向观众表达人性对于人类的重要。

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Escaping Riga (2014)
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Davis Simanis Jr. actor: Gustavs Briedis / Gints Grube
Two young boys are forced to escape their native city of Riga. Later these same boys turn out to be among the most extraordinary personalities of the previous century: one becomes a leading commie film director and the other a mentor to the entire British Empire. This story will reveal the secrets of the remarkably parallel lives between Sergei Eisenstein and Isaiah Berlin.