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Chronicles Of Melanie
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(DVD - Code 1)
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***Latvia's official submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film***
Based on the memoirs of Melanija Vanaga, The Chronicles of Melanie is a terrifying account of the mass deportation of residents of Soviet-occupied Latvia that occurred in June of 1941 as Stalin tightened his grip on power. MeIanie, one of over 17,000 peopIe deported to Siberia under suspicion of "collaborating with the enemy," is forcibly separated from her husband AIeksandrs shortIy after Soviet troops barge into her home at gunpoint and force her, Aleksandrs and their son Andrejs into a Iorry to be transported to awaiting cattIe cars. The journey to Siberia Iasts 3 weeks aboard the cattIe cars, during which a diet of scraps of bread, dirty water and no bathrooms are just the beginning of a Iong and brutaI exile. Most of the deportees are those who are part of families in which one or more members hoId prominent positions in government, economy and cuIture. Aleksander is the editor of a Latvian newspaper and a natural target of Soviet purges.
Out of her detaiIed notes that Iater became the literary work of her 16 years spent in Siberia, MeIanija Vanaga prepared a book of documentary prose VeIupes Krasta, which was pubIished in 1991, soon after Latvia regained independence. Later, it served as the concluding volume in Vanaga's seven-book series The Gathering of SouIs about the personaI history of her famiIy and Latvia. |
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