Bailes (Fear) (film)
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"Bailes" is a 1986 Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic fictional movie. The film's director is Gunārs Cilinskis. The film was produced at the Riga Film Studio according Vladimira Kaijaka novel of the same name.
Scenerio[edit]
This movie starts with a man, a representative from the collective farm, entering a barn on a family's homestead. In the barn a girl in her thirties, Alda, confronts him with a pitchfork. The man goes to the farmhouse to speak to Pētertāls, the father of Alda. We then learn from Pētertāls that Alda is mentally ill and lives in the barn. Although ten years have passed, Alda thinks that the war isn't over. The representative informs Pētertāls that the collective farm will need to use the barn.
In the past, the war is entering its final stages and the Germans are sending people away from their farms as the front is approaching. Pētertāls is told they must leave the house. They pack their things, but once the Germans leave he informs the family that they will not go. Pētertāls and his wife destroy the only bridge leading to their farmstead, in hopes that isolation will save them. Then, one day, Alda is walking through the forest and finds an injured Soviet soldier. He speaks Latvian and tells her to leave him, as the penalty for helping him would be death. Yet Alda brings him food and convinces him to allow her to take him to the family's barn.
In the present, we see Pētertāls with two small children, who seem to be about ten years old; possibly one is Alda's child, but we never learn their paternity. In an aloof yet concerned way, Alda's brother, Kārlis, says to Pētertāls “we must do something about the barn.”
In the past, Pētertāls brings potatoes to the barn and finds the soldier. Pētertāls is angry at Alda, yet brings him medicine and food. He says to his wife, “the war is over and our son is in the Legion. For that, no one will say thank you, but if we help him…” The soldier's state improves as time passes, and we see Alda nursing him and gradually growing closer to the soldier.
Kārlis returns from the front as a deserter. The Soviet soldier sees him returning and attempts to flee the barn on his own. His attempt causes his condition to worsen and Alda finds him in the forest unconscious. Meanwhile, a local lookout for the Germans arrives at the farmstead and informs Pētertāls that they have found a parachute and are searching for a Soviet partisan. Now Kārlis too must hide, as the Germans may find that he has deserted. Kārlis now learns of the soldier in the barn, who by now is very sick. Kārlis suggest that they kill him, yet Pētertāls adamantly opposes this idea. Kārlis argues, “but what do you think we did at the front, you think we didn’t shoot Latvians?”
They plan on moving the soldier, but it's too late. A group of Legionnaires arrive, Kārlis goes to the barn to hide next to the soldier. The Legionnaires enter the barn. By now the Soviet soldier is delirious from fever. To quiet him, Kārlis holds his mouth shut as he begs for water in a fever induced haze. Suddenly soldiers arrive at the farmstead, informing everyone that the war is over; the Germans have capitulated. In the barn, Kārlis also hears the news and realizes that he has accidentally suffocated the soldier. Alda enters and sees Kārlis holding his lifeless body.
In the present, they have gotten Alda out of the barn and have locked her in the house. In the barn, Pētertāls and Kārlis are frantically working to dismantle the chimney. Alda breaks free and enters the barn. She comes in only to find that her father and brother have exposed the remains of the soldier. “The war is over” she exclaims. “The war is over” she keeps repeating in a comatose way as she walks off into the woods.
Roles[edit]
- Eduards Pāvuls — Pētertāle
- Zane Jančevska — Alda
- Aigars Vilims — injured Red Army solider
- Olga Dreģe — Milda
- Ivars Brakovskis — Kārlis
- Valdemārs Zandbergs — Forester
- Uldis Dumpis — Rode
- Andris Bērziņš — Vilnis
- Kārlis Zušmanis — Brigadier
Awards[edit]
- 1986 — "Lielais Kristaps" — best actress— Zane Jančevska.
- 1986 — *Lielais Kristaps" — best supporting actor— Valdemārs Zandbergs.
Interesting Facts[edit]
- The move was filmed in Vaidava Parish, where they managed to find an surviving ria and farmhouse complex.
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