This award-winning Latvian feature film offers a gripping account of Zanis Lipke, a blue-collar worker honoured as one of the 'Righteous Among the Nations' for his heroic deeds during the war. Despite his family's hardship under successive Soviet and German occupations, Lipke embarked on a covert operation to save local Jews from Nazi persecution and certain death, moving them from the Riga ghetto to an underground bunker hidden on his property. From the start, filmmaker Davis Simanis creates a powerfully ominous and suspenseful atmosphere, positioning the viewer, like Lipke, as a reluctant eyewitness to unfolding horrors.
The Mover (2020)
Directed by Davis Simanis Jr.
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Account, Atmosphere, Building, Bunker, Death, Deed, Feature, Jew, Latvian, Lipke, Nation, Operation, Profession, Property, Report, Start, Viewer, War, Worker
Alternate Titles
Noc ojca
PL
Puika ar suni
LV
Tevs nakts
, LV
The Boy with the Dog
, US
The Mover
AU, CA, GB, US
Отец Ночь
RU