Themes: Women During Wartime, Life Under Occupation
Main Cast: Uldis Dumpis, Arturs Skrastins, Inese Cauna, Janis Reinis, Edward Pavuls
Release Year: 2003
Country: LV
Run Time: 105 minutes
Plot
Latvian filmmaker Aigars Grauba directs the epic war romance Baiga Vasara (Dangerous Summer). Set in the capital city of Riga, the film involves a tragic love story during the Soviet invasion of Latvia in 1940. Idealistic radio journalist Roberts (Arturs Skrastins) falls for Baltic German student Isolde (Inese Cauna), who's about to be deported. She is torn between her love for Roberts and her chance at escape for Germany with the help of Latvian foreign minister Vilhelms Munters (Uldis Dumpis). However, Munters gets her implicated in his money-laundering scam with the Soviets. Dangerous Summer was shown at the 2003 Karlovy Vary Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
Cast
Uldis Dumpis - Munters
Arturs Skrastins - Roberts
Inese Cauna - Isolde
Janis Reinis
Edward Pavuls
Credit
Aigars Grauba - Director, S. Elksnt - Editor, A. Bisofs - Editor, Ugis Praulins - Composer (Music Score), Martins Milbrets - Production Designer, Gints Berzins - Cinematographer, Andrejs Ekis - Producer, David Gabison - Screenwriter, Aigars Grauba - Screenwriter, Andrejs Ekis - Screenwriter, Pauls Bankovskis - Screenwriter, Janis Leja - Screenwriter
Baiga vasara (English: Dangerous Summer) is a 2000 Latvian film directed by Aigars Grauba starring Inese Cauna, Uldis Dumpis, Eduards Pāvuls, Jānis Reinis, and Artūrs Skrastiņš.
Plot
Set in Riga, the capital of Latvia, the film tells a tragic love story before and during the Soviet invasion of Latvia in 1940 and the early stages of World War II. Roberts (Artūrs Skrastiņš, a radio journalist, falls in love with Baltic German student Isolde (Inese Cauna), who's about to be deported to Germany. Isolde is torn between her love for Roberts and her chance at escaping for Germany with the help of Latvian foreign minister Vilhelms Munters (Uldis Dumpis)[1].
