Latvian Drama The Pit Sold to German Speaking Territories
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The Pit / Bedre (2020), whose sales are handled by TVCO (Italy), has been sold to the German distributor Arsenal Filmverleih. The film will be distributed in Germany in 30-35 cinemas, as well as in Austria and the German speaking region of Switzerland, in the autumn of 2021.
The film was produced by Marana Productions (Latvia) in cooperation with Inland Film Company (Finland). It premiered at Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, where it won the Grand Prix.
The Pit is based on short stories by the Latvian writer Jana Egle. Telling the story of a 10 year old boy, the film touches upon issues of children growing up without parents, emotional violence, and struggles of childhood in a remote countryside.
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Rome-based international sales and production company TVCO has sold Dace Pūce’s debut feature “The Pit” to German independent distributor Arsenal Filmverleih.
The drama, staged by Latvia’s Marana Production and Finland’s Inland Film Company, is based on a series of true stories published by Jana Egle.
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The plot follows a 10-year-old boy called Markuss (Damirs Onackis), who must adapt to starting a new life in the Latvian countryside with his strict grandmother (Dace Eversa). After Emīlija (Luize Birkenberga), a neighbor’s daughter, makes some contemptuous remarks about Markuss’s dead father, he decides to trick her and makes her fall into a pit. The cruel lesson has severe repercussions throughout the village and the only person who seems to understand the child and his fears is an old sailor who lives alone i