
Paths of Glory(1957)
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.


The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.

Oto Brantevics
Arturs Vanags

Vilis Daudziņš
Col. Sala

Ivars Krasts

Gatis Gāga
Konrads

Martins Vilsons
Vanags

Rēzija Kalniņa
Mother

Raimonds Celms
Edgars Vanags

Jēkabs Reinis
Mikelsons

Ieva Florence-Vīksne
Mirdza
Renārs Zeltiņš
Spilva
The Rifleman is a war, drama, history film released in 2019 exploring themes of world war i, patriotism, soldier. Directed by Dzintars Dreibergs, it stars Oto Brantevics, Vilis Daudziņš, Ivars Krasts. The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.
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