Oleg, a young Latvian butcher, arrives in Brussels in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory. His experience turns short after being betrayed by a colleague. Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls under the yoke of Polish criminal Andrzej.
STARRING
Valentin Novopolskij
Dawid Ogrodnik
Anna Prochniak
Adam Szyszkowski
Guna Zarina
WRITER
Juris Kursietis
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Bogumil Godfrejow
SOUND
Vytis Puronas
MUSIC
Jonas Jurkunas
FILM EDITING
Matyas Veress
PRODUCTION
Tasse Film, Iota Production, In Script, Arizona Productions
DISTRIBUTION
Indie (sales)
Juris Kursietis
Juris Kursietis (1983) worked for six years on Latvian national television as an international journalist. After a Master’s degree in cinema from the Northern Media School in the United Kingdom, he became an assistant director on a number of Latvian movies. He directed his first feature-length film MODRIS, between 2012 and 2013. In 2014, the film was selected for Toronto, San Sebastian New Directors (Special Jury prize), Warsaw, Cottbus, Thessaloniki, Leeds, Goa, Tbilissi (Best Director), Riga (Best First Film and Best Actress in a supporting role), FesbioFest, Bergamo, Guadalajara, Chicago, Vilnius, Fajr, ArtFilmFest, Kinoshock (Best Director), Helsinki, CinEast, Lübeck, Santa Barbara, Prishtina and Busan. OLEG, his second film, was pitched at the ARCS Coproduction Village in 2016 and the first images where shown at the Karlovy Vary work-in-progress in 2018. The film has been selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, 2019.
FILMOGRAPHY
2007 : THE BICYCLE STORY
2008 : WILL HAVE IT TOMORROW (short)
2014 : MODRIS