Defenders of Riga
Jan 01 2007
•2h 58m
•Action, Drama, History, War
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.
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Jānis Reinis
Mārtiņš
Elita Kļaviņa
Elza
Ģirts Krūmiņš
Pavel Bermondt
Romualds Ancans
Rüdiger von der Goltz
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