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Crossroad Street is a small street just 800 metres long on the outskirts of the Latvian capital, Riga. Its various inhabitants, each with his or her own destiny, daily life and relationships with the neighbours, form a microcosm of the country during the time of the Awakening. The genuine interest of the film’s creators in the so-called average person earned a number of international awards, including a European Film Award for best documentary in 1989.

Crossroad Street is the quintessence of the method employed by Latvian documentary film classic Ivars Seleckis (1934). He has been filming Latvian people in cities and in the countryside with the same amount of intense interest since the 1960s, acting as both director and cinematographer. Expressive characters, a sincere but slightly self-deprecating narrator and the warm, sensitive attitude of the film’s creators towards the people in it encourage viewers to empathise and take an interest in the destinies of the characters. The film was followed by New Times on Crossroad Street in 1999 and Capitalism on Crossroad Street in 2013, thus forming a documentary cinema-novel.

Crossroad Street (1988).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 27mn
Size: 	3.19 GiB
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Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
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https://nitro.download/view/88223132A8A95BA/Crossroad_Street_(1988).mkv

Language(s):Latvian
Subtitles:English, French, German, Italian, Latvian, Russian

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