The Rifleman

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Dzintars Dreibergs

Writers

Miguel Machalski, Karen Lee Street, Valdis Celmiņš

Language

Latvian

Country

Latvia

Release date

11 November 2019

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  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

• Grēta Trušiņa

  Marta