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"Leaving By The Way"
World of grown-ups so busy and self-suficient with their real and imaginary passions that it loses children, itself, meaning. Nine years old Dauka sets off in a hope to meet his father lost in the sea.
Nine years old Dauka cannot await for his dad, a sailor, return from the sea. Though he has obscure foreboding his mother is not able to tell the truth about father’s death to Dauka and his sister, Liga. Mother loves her deceased husband and cannot still resign to what has happened. Seized with despair rather than feelings she starts dating with Viktors, the forester. In a fit of anger Viktor’s wife sends telegrams to Dauka as if from his father thus waking up a hope in the boy that dad will be home soon. Consequently it only gets harder to tell the truth to Dauka and, taken up with lies and secret, Dauka’s mother sinks in her despair deeper and deeper. That’s where little Dauka’s odyssey of searches for an answer begins - the answer from his dad, the answer telling what to do and how to live in the world complicated like that by adults. Who will give the answers – the nature, people, the sea?
AT LATVIAN NATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL LEAVING BY THE WAY GOT THE MAIN PRIZE AS THE BEST FEATURE FILM, AS WELL AS THE PRIZE FOR BEST SCORE (ARTURS MASKATS).
THE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE OF THE FILM WILL BE IN KARLOVY VARY – JULY, 2002 AT COMPETITION PROGRAMME.
A boy and the world. The film was shot in Latgale, the poorest and most beautiful region of Latvia. Professional actors are participating in it alongside with local people. The visual language of the film and its “provincial” aesthetics was determined by the harsh environment. The milieu of the film can be perceived without doubt as end of the line where people burn themselves in the fire of passion, where they love, cheat, believe in God and can even poison another person. But above all there is immense longing and Nature.
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