Four White Shirts

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.

Main Cast

Uldis Pūcītis

Cēzars

Age : 63 | Popularity : 4%

Līga Liepiņa

Bella

Age : 77 | Popularity : 3%

Dina Kuple

Anita Sondare

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Arnolds Liniņš

Miervaldis Tralmaks

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Pauls Butkēvičs

Ralfs

Age : 83 | Popularity : 3%

Rostislav Goryayev

Age : 73 | Popularity : 3%

Ernests Karelis

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Antonija Kleimane

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Rolands Kalniņš
Camera	Director of Photography	Miks Zvirbulis
Editing	Editor	Zigrīda Geistarte
Sound	Music	Imants Kalniņš
	Sound Director	Igors Jakovļevs
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Ieva Kundziņa
Writing	Writer	Gunārs Priede
	Story	Gunārs Priede
	Lyricist	Māris Čaklais
Art	Production Design	Uldis Pauzers
Production	Producer	Georgs Blūmentāls Valdis Aizpurietis
Department	Role	Name

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