
2 votes
1957
1h 19m
The first film in a duology based on the biography of Latvian revolutionary Jānis Fabricius. Mārtiņš Venta, the son of a forest ranger, enrolls in a Riga gymnasium and becomes an underground activist, while his classmate, Dace, a teacher's daughter, is expelled from the Riga school for singing the revolutionary song Kā gulbji balti padebeši iet. Dace becomes an actress, but Mārtiņš is drafted into the tsar's army. He refuses to participate in the shooting of a workers' demonstration and is sentenced to exile, but before his deportation, Mārtiņš is allowed to marry Dace in prison.
Directed by Pāvels Armands

Valdemārs Zandbergs
Mārtiņš
Vija Artmane
Dace
Jānis Kubilis
Alberts
Karps Klētnieks
ārsts
Astrīda Gulbe

Juris Lejaskalns

Zigrīda Stungure

Lidija Freimane
Austra Baldone

Jānis Osis

Arturs Dimiters

Pēteris Cepurnieks

Žanis Priekulis

Milda Klētniece

Hermanis Vazdiks

Martinsh Verdinsh

Oļģerts Krastiņš

Karlis Sebris

Harijs Liepiņš

Žanis Kopštāls
Status
Released
Release date
August 8, 1957
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Language
Latvian, Russian