Maria's Silence

Name: Maria's Silence
Director: Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.
Genre: Drama
Released: 2024-04-04
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 9
Cast: Olga Šepicka, Artūrs Skrastiņš, Vilis Daudziņš, Inese Kučinska-Laukšteine, Ģirts Ķesteris

Directed by Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.

Drama

20241h 40m9.0

Overview

In 1937, silent film star Maria Leiko travels to USSR upon learning of the birth of her granddaughter. But when she discovers the tragic circumstances of that event, KGB agents persuade her to remain in the country. Leiko abandons her cinema career to instead join Skatuve, the Latvian State Theatre in Moscow. Soon she discovers that she is being manipulated by the government amid its purges of political enemies. As a network of traitors, informers, and NKVD agents surround her, she must choose between family and career, and between her ideals and the lies of Stalin’s totalitarian regime.