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Dawn

7.5(8)20151h 32m1

Based on a Soviet propaganda story about Young Pioneer (the Soviet equivalent of a Boy Scout) Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers, at any expense. In our film, 75 years later, we call him little Janis. He is a Pioneer who lives on the Soviet collective farm “Dawn”. His father is an enemy of the farm (and the Soviet system) and plots against it. Little Janis betrays his father; his father takes revenge upon his son. Who then in this old Soviet tale is good and who is bad? This film reveals that a distorted brain is always dangerous. Even today.

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Status
Released
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Language
Latvian
  • farm life
  • woman director

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Produced in

Estonia, Latvia, Poland

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Still from DawnStill from Dawn

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSeattle International Film Festival5 Jun 2016
  • EstoniaEE

    • PremiereTallinn Black Nights Film Festival18 Nov 2015
  • LatviaLV

    • Theatrical23 Nov 2015
  • LithuaniaLT

    • PremiereVilnius International Film Festival2 Apr 2016
  • PolandPL

    • PremiereT-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival22 Jul 2016
    • Theatrical31 Mar 2017

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Dawn was released on 23 November 2015.

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