White Bells

5.5
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 24 min
  • Premiere: 1961. January 3.

A little girl wanders all alone in the morning, through a bustling city, looking for the white bells she noticed in the window of a florist's shop. This film heralded the birth of a new film language in Latvian cinema. It received awards at the San Francisco and Oberhausen festivals. and was included on the list of the “world’s 100 best short films” by the film critics at the 1995 Clermont-Ferrand film festival.. All three of the film’s authors together with their peers became the creators of the legendary Riga School of Poetic Documentary.

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Ilze Zariņa

Little Girl

Camera

Uldis Brauns

Director of Photography

Directing

Sound

Voldemārs Blumbergs

Sound Director

Izidors Balters

Sound Director

Writing

Herz Frank

Writer

Camera

Uldis Brauns

Director of Photography

Directing

Sound

Voldemārs Blumbergs

Sound Director

Izidors Balters

Sound Director

Writing

Herz Frank

Writer