Defenders of Riga

Directed by Aigars Grauba

With Jānis Reinis, Elita Kļaviņa, Ģirts Krūmiņš, Romualds Ancans and Vilis Daudziņš

The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.