Overview
A unique, engaging film that combines documentary footage with narrative cinema to tell the story of four generations of a Latvian family. Sixteen year-old student Jānis has been given an interesting homework assignment – to draw his family tree and explain it. The story of his family begins with his great-great-grandfather who burned down the manors of German landowners during the 1905 revolution. My Family Tree takes us on a journey to various countries and political regimes, showing Jānis’ ancestors to be people of diverse fates and life stories. A rich Latvian trader, a red rifleman loyal to Lenin, a carpenter with the KGB and war refugees in Sweden are only a few branches on his family tree, and the boy has heard something unusual and unforgettable about each and every one of these people.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 27, 2013
- Original language
- Latvian
- Spoken languages
- Latvian, Russian, Swedish
- Countries
- Latvia
- Production
- Fenixfilm
- Cast
- Jevgēnijs Isajevs,Marija Bērziņa,Ilze Akmentiņa,Gints Grāvelis,Guna Zariņa,Andris Berzins,Ērika Eglija-Grāvele,Juris Circenis,Aldis Siliņš,Inita Dzelmeand 4 more
- Director
- Una Celma
- Writer
- Matīss Kaža,Una Celma
- Producer
- Una Celma
- Cinematography
- Uldis Jancis,Aleksandrs Grebņevs
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- View on IMDb