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BALTIC TRIBES | LAST PAGANS OF EUROPE

BALTU CILTIS | EIROPAS PĒDĒJIE PAGĀNI

By Raitis ABELE, Lauris ABELE

Drama - Completed 2018

This docudrama overthrows the myth of the Baltic people as just peaceful farmers exploring who the last pagans of Europe really were and what they believed.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama, Historical, Documentary
- Countries
- LATVIA, POLAND
- Languages
- LATVIAN, ENGLISH, LITHUANIAN, POLISH
- Director(s)
- Raitis ABELE, Lauris ABELE
- Producer(s)
- Dace SIATKOVSKA (DACE SIATKOVSKA (INDEPENDENT)), Kristele PUDANE (TRITONE STUDIO), Raitis ABELE (TRITONE STUDIO), Dorota ROSZKOWSKA (ARKANA studio PL)
- Synopsis
- DocuDrama about 13th century pre-Christian culture. Danish spy Lars enters the tribal lands of the Baltic peoples, where he takes part in religious rites, cruel forays, gets high during the Summer Solstice, becomes slave to the Couronians and even fights the crusaders. Who were the last pagans of Europe and how did they live? It is a unique trip into the textures of the past and into the unknown lands of the Baltic Tribes.