Street Cross (film)

The film takes place in a stormy 1988, when the whole country is on the verge of change. The scene is a small quiet street on the outskirts of Riga, in Imanta . The people in question live their separate lives, so familiar to the author of the film’s script, who has spent his childhood on this street.

Among the heroes of this film novel, we see a taxi driver, a young mother, a disabled person, a preacher, and their neighbors. In the controversial drama of these seemingly ordinary people, one can see a symbolic cast of the fate of an entire nation.

• Screenwriter: Talivaldis Margevich
• Production Director: Ivar Seletskis
• Photography: Ivar Seleckis
• Composer: Ivars Vigners
• Sound engineer: Gunārs Racenays
• Editor: Maya Seletska
• Producer: Leonid Berzins

• widescreen
• color, 35 mm.
• 85 min.

• 1988 - Prize of USSR film clubs, Prize of criticism “For creating the image of the street on which we live”, Prize “Silver Centaur” at the IFF “Message to Man”
• 1988 - Winner of the Best Documentary Film nomination at the Big Kristap Film Festival
• 1989 - Joris Ivens Prize at the Amsterdam International Film Festival
• 1989 - Grand Prix at the International Film Festival of Documentary and Anthropological Films in Pärnu
• 1989 - R. Flaherty Prize at the International Film Festival of non-fiction films in Yamagata
• 1989 - Special prize of the joint jury of the All-Union Film Festival of non-fiction films in Voronezh
• 1990 - Nika Award for Best Documentary
• 1990 - Felix Award for the European Film Academy's “Best Documentary Film”

• New times on the street Transverse

• The story about the film on the website latfilma.lv (English)