FLASHBACK
Original language title: [same]

Country of production: Latvia
Year: 2002
Language: Russian
102 mins.

Most films you see, including at this festival, have a sense of hurry and urgency. Not so FLASHBACK. This is a film of exceeding calm and reflection, a gentle autobiography incorporating images from filmmaker Herz Frank's life and many celebrated short films. FLASHBACK especially focuses on the short film 10 MINUTES OLDER, from 1978, in which Frank and a cameraman study the glowing, haunting, shimmeringly emotional face of a young boy at a puppet theatre. Some twenty years later, Frank relocates the boy, who is now a man, and whose life regularly requires hiding his emotions. At the same time, death suddenly looms over Frank: a terminal disease for his wife, heart surgery for Frank himself. With this film, Frank offers a deeply indulgent, yet deeply stirring and beautifully composed, portrait of himself and his world.

Director: Herz Frank
Script: Herz Frank
Cinematography: Victor Griberman
Music: Liudgaard Gedravichus, David Krupnik, Georg F. Handel
Editing: Sergey Usanov
Sound: Aivars Riekstins, Sergey Usanov
Producers: Herz Frank, Guntis Trekteris
Production Company: Efex, Kaupo Films
Source:
Kaupo Filma
Lasplesa Str 27
LV 1011 Riga, Latvia
ieva.pitruka@nfc.gov.lv

Herz Frank was born in Ludza, Latvia. He studied law in Moscow, then worked as a journalist, photographer, scriptwriter, and film director. Herz Frank is one of the founders of the Riga School of poetic documentary and has made roughly 30 films, which have been widely awarded around the world. He is also the author of THE CHART OF PTOLEMY, a book about poetic documentaries.

Thursday, March 27
7pm
Facets Cinematheque