Defenders of Riga

Defenders of Riga

Actors:  Jānis Reinis, Elita Kļaviņa, Ģirts Krūmiņš, Romualds Ancāns, Vilis Daudziņš, Andris Keišs Directors:  Aigars Grauba

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 a...