Kaugurieši

Overview

In 1802, growing anger among Latvian peasants erupts after changes in taxation, placing an even heavier burden on the peasant population. After a series of meetings, the peasants resolve to use force to free those already arrested. Thousands armed with clubs and scythes rise up, but are driven back by troops and retreat into a nearby forest. As reinforcements arrive, mass arrests and brutal reprisals follow, and the courts sentence some of the rebels to lifelong exile in Siberia.

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Cast

Nikolajs Krauklis

Pēteris

Alma Ābele

Anna

Jānis Mierkalns

Žanis Bunka

Milda Klētniece

Viliberts Štāls

Žanis Katlaps

Harijs Šulcs

Austra Šteinberga

Voldemārs Švarcs