Dawn
Ausma
Drama
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.
2015-11-23
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Cast
Director
Laila Pakalnina
Vilis Daudziņš as Little Janis' Father
Wiktor Zborowski as Karl Ivanovitš
Āris Rozentāls as Karl Ivanovitš (voice)
Andris Keišs as Jekabs Kalnins
Liena Šmukste as Mirdza Ozolina
Ģirts Krūmiņš as Joosep Ozolin
Rūdolfs Plēpis as Narrator
Ivars Brakovskis as Doctor
Gatis Gāga as Karl Ivanovitš's Assistant
Uldis Lieldidzs as Teacher
Pēteris Liepiņš as Neighbour
Mārcis Maņjakovs as Militia
Indra Briķe as Brigadier
Artis Drozdovs as Young Communist Ivars
Guna Zariņa as Little Janis' Mother