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Four White Shirts (1967)

Genre : Drama, Music

Runtime : 1H 17M

Director : Rolands Kalniņš

Synopsis

Cezars Kalnins, portrayed by "Latvian Harrison Ford” Uldis Pucitis, installs telephones by day and composes pop songs by night. The puritan Soviet censorship deems Cezars’s lyrics "unsuitable and frivolous” and "unfit for the Soviet youth”. In fact, it can be argued that this assessment matches the opinion of the Soviet cinema authorities in regard to this film as a whole, since "Four White Shirts” was immediately banned and released in cinemas only in 1986. The creative boldness and stubbornness, evident in both Cezars’s bitingly ironic verses and the film’s unconventional narrative structure and fresh, new-wave-inspired mode of expression, turned out to be equally problematic for the hero and for the film itself, as well as for its director whose representation of the actual mechanisms of Soviet censorship ended up too realistic for his own good.

Actors

Uldis Pūcītis
Uldis Pūcītis
Cēzars
Līga Liepiņa
Līga Liepiņa
Bella
Dina Kuple
Dina Kuple
Anita Sondare
Arnolds Liniņš
Arnolds Liniņš
Miervaldis Tralmaks
Pauls Butkēvičs
Pauls Butkēvičs
Ralfs
Rostislav Goryayev
Rostislav Goryayev
Ernests Karelis
Ernests Karelis
Antonija Kleimane
Antonija Kleimane
Oļģerts Kroders
Oļģerts Kroders
Irēna Lagzdiņa
Irēna Lagzdiņa
Armīns Lejiņš
Armīns Lejiņš
Edgars Liepiņš
Edgars Liepiņš
Eduards Plataiskalns
Eduards Plataiskalns
Jāzeps Pīgoznis
Jāzeps Pīgoznis
Āris Rozentāls
Āris Rozentāls
Renāte Stūrmane
Renāte Stūrmane
Severīns Vilsons
Severīns Vilsons

Crews

Rolands Kalniņš
Rolands Kalniņš
Director
Gunārs Priede
Gunārs Priede
Story
Gunārs Priede
Gunārs Priede
Writer
Uldis Pauzers
Uldis Pauzers
Production Design
Imants Kalniņš
Imants Kalniņš
Music
Igors Jakovļevs
Igors Jakovļevs
Sound Director
Zigrīda Geistarte
Zigrīda Geistarte
Editor
Valdis Aizpurietis
Valdis Aizpurietis
Producer
Georgs Blūmentāls
Georgs Blūmentāls
Producer
Miks Zvirbulis
Miks Zvirbulis
Director of Photography
Māris Čaklais
Māris Čaklais
Lyricist
Ieva Kundziņa
Ieva Kundziņa
Costume Design

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