''Dawn'' ( lv, Ausma) is a 2015 black-and-white Latvian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Laila Pakalniņa
Laila Pakalniņa (born 4 June 1962) is a Latvian film director and screenwriter. She has directed more than 20 films since 1991. Her film ''The Shoe (film), Kurpe'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
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about
Pavlik Morozov
Pavel Trofimovich Morozov (russian: link=no, Па́вел Трофи́мович Моро́зов; 14 November 1918 – 3 September 1932), better known by the diminutive Pavlik, was a Soviet youth praised by the Soviet press as a martyr. ...
, who denounced his father. It was selected as the Latvian entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
It's a coproduction with Poland and Estonia.
Cast
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Vilis Daudziņš
Vilis Daudziņš (born 7 November 1970) is a Latvian actor. In the theatre, he has appeared in several plays of Alvis Hermanis
Alvis Hermanis is a Latvian theatre director, set designer and actor. Since 1997 he has worked at the New Riga T ...
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Antons Grauds
Antons is a Danish, Latvian and Swedish masculine given name that is a short form of Antonius in use in Denmark, Greenland, Sweden, and Latvia. It is also a surname. People with the name Antons include:
Given name
*Antons Jemeļins (born 1984) ...
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Andris Keišs
Andris Keišs (born 26 November 1974) is a Latvian actor. In the theatre, he has appeared in several plays of Alvis Hermanis and Māra Ķimele. He has also taken part in several films.
In 2005 he received the Union of Latvian Theatre Workers be ...
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Liena Šmukste
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Wiktor Zborowski
Wiktor Zborowski (born 10 January 1951 in Warsaw) is a Polish actor. He is the nephew of actor Jan Kobuszewski. In 1973 he completed The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. He appeared in the comedy television serie ...
See also
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List of submissions to the 89th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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References
External links
National Film Centre Latvia*
2015 films
2015 drama films
Latvian drama films
Latvian black-and-white films
Latvian-language films
Films directed by Laila Pakalniņa
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