Long Road in the Dunes (1980)

best movie i've ever seen.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

This serial-movie is excellent. I've seen it some three times, it has 7 parts( There are rumours, that there where two or four more episodes, but were destroyed by Soviet Union, but I can't tell for sure), acting is just great, plot is superb, music, of course, is excellent. I love the way it lives through different times of Latvia's History. Time before WW2, during WW2, punishment in Sibiria, Soviet Union, returning home, and above all that - undying love, that still survives no matter what. And, on top of that, Marta(Lilita Ozoliņa, lead female role) and Artūrs(Juozas Kisielius, lead male role) share their love and before WW2 their son, Edgars, is born, although Artūrs doesn't find out 'till the end of the movies. I think that Edgars is a sign/symbol of Marta and Artūrs undying love the most, it is shown through Marta relationship with her son. Every mother loves their children but Marta does that with double force as if Edgars is the only chance for Marta to ever meet Artūrs again. So, I simply love this movie and I think that every Latvian ought to see it and I recommend to watch everyone who has a chance to do that.

Hmmm,only one comment of the best Latvian film? Latvians,where are you? This is the best film about Latvian history and the best Latvian TV-series off all time. You know who is Aloiz Brench? One of the most popular directors in Latvia. I think that this story is one of the best shows I have seen on TV. I have watched it many many times,the music,idea,everything is powerful. We must listen a soundtrack of this film. The soundtrack is excellent. Soundtrack author is Raimonds Pauls,one of the best Latvian compositors. I love the passion and dedication of actors,which you can not see in Hollywood cinema. I loved this film. Loved everything about it and I am so proud that is the Latvian film. The charming,powerful and excellent love story in a time of WW2 and one of the greatest -latvian-movies ever. I just highly recommend you see it as soon as possible.

I cannot believe I'm the first one commenting on this film! Twenty years ago, you'd be hard pressed to find one Russian who wasn't head over heals in love with this movie. It's a story told in several parts that takes place over several decades. It begins around the time Latvia was overtaken by the Soviets, with this beautiful love story set against the backdrop of the changing times. Although my recollection is somewhat hazy (it's been 20 years!), I believe the main heroine is a daughter of this rich farmer. She falls in love with a guy who is pro-Soviet, some kind of an activist, who is determined to eradicate people like her father. Needless to say, lots of drama results from this predicament. Then there is a rich suitor who wants to marry her, and her father likes him, but can't get her to change her mind.Then, the WWII starts with all its chaos. The activist goes into the underground resistance against the Nazis, while the rich suitor becomes one of those Latvian legionnaires (that are now celebrated all over Latvia, even though they were essentially helping the Nazis). Through a series of misunderstandings, she comes to think that the activist was killed. By now, she has a son by him and has to make a difficult choice as to how to survive. For the sake of her son, she accepts the rich suitor's advances. By the time the war is over, the activist learns she married another and decides not to come back.After the war, she is condemned for living with a Nazi rich suitor and sent to Siberia. I think, twenty years pass or so. All the while, the activist learns her fate and starts looking for her. At some point, she learns that he's alive, but it takes them some time to find each other. The last scene (I am choking up just thinking about it) is them meeting after all these years, with this most beautiful score playing in the background (Raimond Pauls, who composed the score, was the most famous composer of popular music in the former Soviet Union). It ends with them just standing there, looking at each other, realizing that their whole life passed in search for each other, but their love survived.I know it sounds somewhat made up, but the actors, the music, the scenery - everything came together in this movie. If you get a chance, spend a weekend with it (I think, it's broken up in 6-8 parts). You won't be sorry.