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Four White Shirts ( Latvian: Četri balti krekli) or Breathe Deeply ( Elpojiet dziļi) is a 1967 romantic drama film directed by Rolands Kalniņš. [2] The film was prevented from being screened by Soviet censors for 20 years following its release. [3] In 2018, Four White Shirts was featured in the 2018 Cannes Classics program.
Four White Shirts: Directed by Rolands Kalnins. With Uldis Pucitis, Dina Kuple, Liga Liepina, Arnolds Linins. Phone technician Cezars Kalnins in his free time composes songs and performs in a band created with his friends.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Rolands Kalnins
- 1987
May 15, 2018 · With his 1967 film Cetri Balti Krekli (Four white shirts), Rolands Kalniņš presented a subtle critique of the Soviet totalitarian regime via musical comedy. It was banned from screens for twenty years, shown in public for the first time in 1986 and restored in 2017 to mark the filmmaker's 95th birthday.
The puritan Soviet censorship deems Cezars’s lyrics "unsuitable and frivolous” and "unfit for the Soviet youth”. In fact, it can be argued that this assessment matches the opinion of the Soviet cinema authorities in regard to this film as a whole, since "Four White Shirts” was immediately banned and released in cinemas only in 1986.
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- Rīgas Kinostudija
- Rolands Kalniņš
Mar 6, 2021 · Rolands Kalniņš' movie Four White Shirts ( Četri balti krekli) was shot in 1967 based on Gunārs Priede's play The Thirteenth One . The film had a vicissitudinous fate in the Soviet era, though with the changing times it brought Kalniņš well-earned recognition. Four White Shirts tells the story of phone repairman Cēzars Kalniņš (played ...
At its core, Four White Shirts is a quintessential zeitgeist movie on a par with any of its better known counterparts from further West, and has equal significance both for its political standpoint and its purely artistic merits. Cēzars is the ultimate charismatic troubled soul standing against the system – by today’s standards, he would ...
In the end, “Four White Shirts” was not banned outright, but such tight restrictions were placed on its screening and distribution that it was effectively consigned to oblivion. Two decades later, as Gorbachev’s glasnost unfroze the cultural climate in the late 1980s, “Four White Shirts” was finally shown on big screens and got a ...
