Following the Swan Flock of Clouds

Overview

The first film in a duology based on the biography of Latvian revolutionary Jānis Fabricius. Mārtiņš Venta, the son of a forest ranger, enrolls in a Riga gymnasium and becomes an underground activist, while his classmate, Dace, a teacher's daughter, is expelled from the Riga school for singing the revolutionary song Kā gulbji balti padebeši iet. Dace becomes an actress, but Mārtiņš is drafted into the tsar's army. He refuses to participate in the shooting of a workers' demonstration and is sentenced to exile, but before his deportation, Mārtiņš is allowed to marry Dace in prison.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 8, 1957

Original language

Latvian

Spoken languages

latvian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Rīgas kinostudija

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0235085