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Svetku anatomija
The Anatomy of National Holiday (SKU #6014)

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  • Through expresssive poetic cinematography this film offers a ”poem” on the hundreds of worker-bees behind the annual celebrations of Latvian proclamation on November 18th in the year 2004.Anniversary of National proclamation is a day of special meaning in all calendars in the whole world. Speeches and smiles, whispers and racy jokes swirl around. The Anatomy of National Holiday doesn’t claim to do a journalistic documentary research about solidarity of state power and society in such public holiday. With its’ precise and expressive cinematographic means it is rather a poem about hundreds of pixies who arrange this festivity for us. It is poetry about „back-yard” of holiday-making that everyone wants to look into. The film is a kind of holiday ecology: when our smaller brothers are sacrificed for our ritual dining table; when for a moment fireworks cover the real stars. It is a usual day in an unusual date – 18th November 2004, the Latvian National Proclamation day.

    Filma “Svētku anatomija” izseko vērienīgajam darbam, kas ieguldīts, gatavojoties 2004. gada 18. novembra Valsts svētkiem, un vispārinot atklāj svētku radīšanas mehānismu. Brīvi improvizējot žanriski, šo projektu var ierindot pie aizkulišu filmām – stāsts par nozīmīgu svētku gatavošanas posmu, ko nav lemts redzēt lielākajai daļai svētku svinētāju. Kāpēc aizkulises vienmēr šķiet interesantas? Tas ir noslēpums, intriga, kas sakairina ziņkāri un uztur spriedzi līdz pat skaistajam finālam – svētku salūta.
    Filmā redzams liels pulks svētku dalībnieku un organizāciju, kas palīdz svētkiem veidoties un notikt, – Valsts prezidente, Latvijas Nacionālā aizsardzības akadēmija, strausu audzētājs Armands Zdanovskis no Atašienes, Lietuvas Monētu kaltuve, vijolniece Vineta Soreika, Latvijas Nacionālais teātris, restorāns “Vincents”, Liepājas Simfoniskais orķestris, robežsargu suns un daudzi, daudzi citi.
  • In Latvian, subtitles in English, Russian.
    DVD, PAL (World format) 62 min
    PLEASE NOTE - May not play on regular American (NTSC) DVD players.
  • Riga, Latvia 2010




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