One of the best-known gems of Latvian cinematography and the most distinctive film by the master director Herz Frank. For ten whole minutes, the camera never leaves the face of a young boy watching a puppet show, and through this child’s soul the viewer experiences the struggle between good and evil by observing the boy’s unmediated emotions, which make him ten minutes older, more experienced and emotionally mature.

As one of the finest examples of the Riga School of Poetic Documentary Cinema, this film is pure movement of the soul. The black-and-white work contains not a single spoken word; only the precise, emotionally evocative soundscape and the observant eye of the cinematographer are at work here. Shot in one take, the length of the film was dictated by the technology of the day – one role of 35mm film was exactly ten minutes long. To create the necessary drama for these ten minutes “cut straight out of life”, director Herz Frank (1926–2013) watched several different puppet shows and used a stopwatch to select the most emotionally saturated excerpt. The technical aspects of the filming also required much creativity on the part of cinematographer Juris Podnieks (1950–1992). Ten Minutes Older is still part of the “obligatory repertoire” at many film schools throughout the world.

	
Herz Frank - Ten Minutes Older (1978).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	10 min 7 s
Size: 	186 MiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1280x720 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 442 kb/s
BPP: 	0.106
Audio
#1:  	Latvian 2.0ch AAC LC @ 125 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/343641713F020ED/Herz_Frank_-_Ten_Minutes_Older_(1978).mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/56671ad101ababca8b7aeda632e10d87/Herz_Frank_-_Ten_Minutes_Older_(1978).mkv

Language(s):Latvian
Subtitles:English

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