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Cast

Crew

Zane Mače

Zane Mače

Line Producer

Ivars Zviedris

Ivars Zviedris

Director of Photography

Ivars Zviedris

Ivars Zviedris

Producer

Ivars Ozols

Ivars Ozols

Sound Editor

Haralds Ozols

Haralds Ozols

Director of Photography

Haralds Ozols

Haralds Ozols

Editor

Ivars Zviedris

Ivars Zviedris

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The Misunderstood

20200.0 / 1026 min
Documentary

Overview

An attempt to understand the people chanting "Atlaist Saeimu!" (Sack the parliament!) year after year. Though rarely attracting a great deal of notice, there are always individuals collecting signatures for a referendum to dissolve the parliament for one reason or another, or simply standing outside the building and reciting their familiar mantra. Latvian governments change fairly often, but the parliament has been dissolved in line wth the Constitution only once, in 2010 (in 1934 it was dissolved unconstitutionally following a coup by Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis). The actual parliament building in Old Rīga was, however, attacked in January 2009 during a very rare violent protest which precipitated the fall of Ivars Godmanis' cabinet. The documentary zips back and forth in time giving portraits of various different people and political forces pushing the idea to "Atlaist Saeimu" for different reasons.