The Fathers Over There

Synopsis

Andris Caune, Ojārs Grensbergs, Imants Grāvītis and Jānis Zemtautis spent many years in the Gulag camps. They survived. In 1954, a riot broke out in Jezkazan, Kazakhstan. The men’s camp and women’s camp joined together and held on for 40 days. Then came the tanks that killed more than 1,000 of them. Austra Vērpe met her future husband there. They were lucky to stay alive. The dream of the musician Zigfrīds Muktupāvels was to find the grave of his paternal uncle in far-off Kazakhstan. He was named after his uncle, who never came home. Zigfrīds and a cousin headed off into the steppes to look for a monument reading “Zigfrīds Muktupāvels.” The next round of deportations occurred in 1949, and whole families were sent to Siberia. Fathers were tried in court, a great many ended up in punitive camps in Vorkuta and Inta. Skaidrīte Jostmane and Māris Landers travelled to Vorkuta to find their father’s gravesite.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Editing	Editor	Armands Zvirbulis
Sound	Sound Director	Armands Zvirbulis
	Music	Pēteris Vasks
Directing	Director	Dzintra Geka-Vaska
Production	Producer	Dzintra Geka-Vaska
Camera	Director of Photography	Viktors Grībermans Aivars Lubānietis
Writing	Writer	Ēriks Lanss
Department	Role	Name

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