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The DVD „Comeback” is a compilation of five films by the noted Latvian cinematographer and documentary film director Uldis Brauns, one of the founders of the internationally reknowned „Riga Poetic Documentary School”. The country boy from veterinary college happened to become an innovative documentary fim director, a well known master of his art

For some viewers this DVD might be a distinctive travel into past, for others – an evidence to the stories about the days that are long gone.

The short fiction „White Bell” is a portrait of city Riga in the 1960’s. It turned out to be a turning point in Latvian cinematography — filmed using some of the feature film techniques, it nevertheless became a corner stone of the Riga school of poetic documentary.
A groundbreaking film that began a new era in the history of Latvian documentary cinema. This poetic visual essay that follows a little girl in the Riga of 1960s, launched a new school, the so-called Riga poetic documentary, which, in a way, is a paradox: the film relies, in part, on non-documentary elements. This film is included in the Latvian Cultural Canon, read more about it on the homepage.
The trilogy of documentary film classic „Beginning”, „Construction” and „Worker” shows the poetic beauty of labour and human power on different construction sites. The unconventionally edited and commented film „Summer” concludes this compilation of the Latvian documentary film gems by showing one summer events in the township of Kuldiga.

As an extra feature, the DVD includes a commented interview of Uldis Brauns, where he talks with Ivars Seleckis over his films and the time.