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Baltic Focus
Baltic Focus
Gravediggers
- Ivars Zviedris
- Latvia
- 2023
- 30 min
- Latvian, Russian
- English
Gravediggers prepare a lifelong home for us all. They do their work by standing over people when they are in grief and are the last hands to touch the grave towel that lowers the deceased a meter and a half below the ground. Alongside other ancient professions, gravediggers have inherited knowledge and skills through several generations - not only in digging holes but also in Latvia's rich cemetery culture, where everything has its order. Latvia's cemeteries are where traditions from different centuries meet, and every gravedigger needs to know them so that he or she can continue to receive the stamps for the job of digging graves. The most experienced of them have already received 5 000 such stamps, which is equivalent to the population of one town in Latvia.
Film crew
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Director:Ivars Zviedris
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Cinematographer:Ivars Zviedris
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Producer:Ivars Zviedris, Emma Daniela Grape
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Composer:Krists Auznieks
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Sound operator:Girts Bishs
Information
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Theme:Lifestyle
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Film studio:Dokumentālists
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Country of action:Latvia
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Language:Latvian, Russian
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Subtitles:English
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Artdocfest 2024Baltic Focus program Special Prize