Lidija
2017•37m•Released
Documentary
A person’s face and eyes preserve experience better than any document or recorded memoir. Particularly if a person has experienced as much as the well-known dissident Lidija Lasmane-Doroņina. Actually, she does not even think of herself as a dissident. She received her three terms in prisons and labour camps – fourteen years in all – as punishment not for underground struggle but for daring to remain true to her principles, convictions and faith. The ideals Lidija obtained as a child – the idyllic image of Latvia as an independent country, strong family values and faith in God as a moral measuring stick for any action. Her eyes are bright even today, at the age of 91, and they look at this world full of life.
Director
Andrejs Verhoustinskis
Writer
Henrieta Verhoustinska, Andrejs Verhoustinskis
Studio
VFS Films
Production
Company
VFS Films
Producer
Uldis Cekulis
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