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Trillium (2018)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 26M

Director : Zane Gargažina

Synopsis

There are about 250 people with a unique ancestry. Livonians – one of the smallest and most endangered nations. Each of Livonians has a duty to preserve their identity and the great history of their ancestors. Trillium follows the footsteps of a poet and researcher Valts Ernštreits, who is one of 20 people able to speak fluent Livonian – an indigenous language related to Estonian and Finnish – in his efforts to look after the language and culture of these ancient settlers of the Baltic Sea coast.

Actors

Crews

Zane Gargažina
Zane Gargažina
Director
Zane Gargažina
Zane Gargažina
Writer
Dāvids Ernštreits
Dāvids Ernštreits
Writer
Dāvids Ernštreits
Dāvids Ernštreits
Producer
Mārtiņš Šalmis
Mārtiņš Šalmis
Director of Photography
Rihards Gēcis
Rihards Gēcis
Editor

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Talkers
The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spoken in Riga and central parts of Latvia - not featured in the film. In intimate surroundings, a farmer, a schoolteacher, and a herder of ostriches talk about perceived differences between Latvian speakers, and about language policy and their lives.