Genero: Drama, Familia, Historia

Año: 2013

Actores: Harijs Spanovskis, Andris Bērziņš, Inita Dzelme, Artūrs Dīcis, Edgars Petkevičs, Juris Circenis

Producción de estudio: Fenixfilm

País: Latvia

Formato: HDTV

Fecha: Sep 27, 2013

Descripción:

A unique, engaging film that combines documentary footage with narrative cinema to tell the story of four generations of a Latvian family. Sixteen year-old student Jānis has been given an interesting homework assignment – to draw his family tree and explain it. The story of his family begins with his great-great-grandfather who burned down the manors of German landowners during the 1905 revolution. My Family Tree takes us on a journey to various countries and political regimes, showing Jānis’ ancestors to be people of diverse fates and life stories. A rich Latvian trader, a red rifleman loyal to Lenin, a carpenter with the KGB and war refugees in Sweden are only a few branches on his family tree, and the boy has heard something unusual and unforgettable about each and every one of these people.