Dzintars Belogrudovs

En Lettonie, on fête dans l'allégresse la nuit la plus courte de l'année. Une poétesse portugaise, deux pompiers anglais et une hôtesse de l'air déchaînée vont être emportés dans ce délire. Un Américain aussi, plutôt bougon, qui débarque à Riga pour retrouver sa demi-sœur. Dès son arrivée, il déteste ce pays de dingues. Mais les gens qu'il rencontre et les péripéties rocambolesques qui s'accumulent sur sa route pourraient le faire changer d'avis.

Iwan Rabcynski, born in St. Petersburg (Florida), writes Russian melodramas under the pseudonym "John F. Romanoff. He gets his inspiration in Brooklyn, his chosen home. His new novel, which is meant to be autobiographical, begins with his Russian great grandfather in St. Petersburg in 1882 and follows three generations as they survive the country's political upheavals.

A spoof of Soviet epics.

The path of the main character to the tops of creative work is a chain of victories and losses, in which gains and irretrievable losses alternate.

In this film, the inhabitants of Riga, each differently, introduce us to this 800-year old European city and make an avowal of love to it. You will learn that Riga is the world capital of Art Nouveau, that the famous Festival of Songs is on the List of UNESCO World Heritage, that the world-known violinist Gideon Cramer with his orchestra Kremerata Baltica comes from Riga, that during the Second World War near Riga, in the forests of Rumbula, more than 200,000 victims of the holocaust were killed, that today Riga is a cheerful and vital city visited by thousands of guests.