12/15/2023 0 Comments The rifleman the journey back![]() Brantevics does some impressive work as a young man out of his depth in the heat of conflict – his hollow, performative war cry is palpably infused with fear – but the movie gives him scant opportunity to provide layers to the character. The Rifleman powers itself into its action quickly and, as a result, has little time to establish depth to its characters. The problems come with the other elements of the movie. When the action is on the battlefield, the cinematic ambition of Dreibergs ensures that the movie feels different to other war film efforts, with Elem Klimov’s classic Come and See a clear influence on the relentless violence. The movie opens with a brutal forest gunfight and cinematographer Valdis Celmins continuously finds the violent beauty in the well-staged sequences of conflict, from a close-quarters scuffle of flailing bayonets to a horrifying gas attack on the Latvian fighters. ![]() He travels to the frontline where he fights alongside his older brother (Raimonds Celms) and under the command of his sergeant major dad (Martins Vilsons).ĭirector Dzintars Dreibergs certainly doesn’t scrimp when it comes to depicting the horror of war. His analogue is teenager Arturs Vanags (Oto Brantevics), who enlists in the army a few weeks before his 17th birthday – after his mother is murdered by German soldiers. The film is based on First World War veteran Aleksandrs Grīns’ acclaimed novel Blizzard of Souls and inspired by his own experiences in the trenches. Latvian drama The Rifleman centres a different and under-explained element of the First World War, focusing on that country’s forces and their uncomfortable position in the conflict. Western cinema has been so fascinated by both conflicts that the market is saturated with America-centric portraits of the two worst military conflicts ever to take place on this planet. It’s always refreshing to see a different perspective on the two World Wars. ![]() When his mother is gunned down by German soldiers, a Latvian teenager enlists to fight on the frontline of the First World War under the command of his military veteran father. Starring Oto Brantevics, Raimonds Celms, Martins Vilsons, Jekabs Reinis, Gatis Gaga, Renars Zeltins and Greta Trusina.
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