The Rifleman (2022)

  • MA15+
  • 05/01/2022 (AU)
  • War, Drama, History
  • 2h 4m

Overview

The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.

Boris Frumin

Screenplay

Dzintars Dreibergs

Director

Cast

Oto Brantevics's headshot

Oto Brantevics

Arturs Vanags
Vilis Daudziņš's headshot

Vilis Daudziņš

Col. Sala
Ivars Krasts's headshot

Ivars Krasts

Gatis Gāga's headshot

Gatis Gāga

Konrads
Martins Vilsons's headshot

Martins Vilsons

Vanags
Rēzija Kalniņa's headshot

Rēzija Kalniņa

Mother
Raimonds Celms's headshot

Raimonds Celms

Edgars Vanags
Jēkabs Reinis's headshot

Jēkabs Reinis

Mikelsons

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