Movie

Dawn

★ 7.5/10 · 8 votes 2015 1h 32m Released

Drama

Based on a Soviet propaganda story about Young Pioneer (the Soviet equivalent of a Boy Scout) Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers, at any expense. In our film, 75 years later, we call him little Janis. He is a Pioneer who lives on the Soviet collective farm “Dawn”. His father is an enemy of the farm (and the Soviet system) and plots against it. Little Janis betrays his father; his father takes revenge upon his son. Who then in this old Soviet tale is good and who is bad? This film reveals that a distorted brain is always dangerous. Even today.

Cast

A Antons Georgs Grauds Little Janis Vilis Daudziņš Little Janis' Father Wiktor Zborowski Karl Ivanovitš Āris Rozentāls Karl Ivanovitš (voice) Andris Keišs Jekabs Kalnins Liena Šmukste Mirdza Ozolina