Defenders of Riga
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Sombre, breathless, extreme drama / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.
Our read · Defenders of Riga (2007) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded drama · war · historical entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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