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Sīmanis, together with writers
Tabita Rudzāte and
Uldis Tīrons, chooses to tell an incredible story set in the year preceding the outbreak of World War I, in a world that is about to be radically transformed by new systems and ideologies. The whole plot revolves around the journey of a Latvian man, Peter (Czech thesp
Petr Buchta), who always claims that his name is Hans, and we initially see him working as a doorman in Riga. His more or less casual wanderings lead him to become embroiled in the revolutionary plans of communists, anarchists, proto-fascists and nationalists. From Riga to Prague, from London to Paris, from Vienna to Switzerland s Monte Verità, and later back to Riga again, Peter/Hans goes on a long, picaresque journey, where he ends up having a strange affair with a disturbing Mata Hari-like spy (