The Year Before the War (2021)
Stylized as silent cinema, the film connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of a new world. This mysterious adventurer, who was known as Peter the Lett, gets involved in a tragicomic and surreal race from a routine clerk job and a romantic passion in Riga to preparation of the world revolution in Vienna, psychoanalysis at Freud’s salon and seduction of Mata Hari in Paris.
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good back-story, and good acting
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful