Foreign Passions

Foreign Passions (Russian: Чужие страсти; Latvian: Svešās kaislības) is a feature film directed by Janis Streich, based on the novel of the same name by the Lithuanian writer Mikolas Slutskis at the Riga Film Studio in 1983.

Plot
The film takes place in 1945 at the Valdamani farm in Latvia. Marite, an orphan who found shelter with her distant relative, becomes an involuntary witness to the dramatic events. The old owner of the farm, who has survived from his mind, is not able to do farming. His wife has views of his former farm laborer Antanas, who recently returned from the front. She wants to see him as her lover and, not without reason, counts on the patronage of friends of Antanas, such as he front-line soldiers, who became volost bosses overnight. Antanas himself makes the most of the situation and sees himself as the new owner of the farm. But luck turns away from him. First, all the accumulated money was taken away from him by the “forest brothers” who looked at one of the farms on one of the nights, then the news came about the deadly illness of the mother and to top all the troubles - the pregnant daughter from him was having an abortion. Antanas, drunk with grief, fell asleep in a stable, where the insane Valdmanis slaughtered his sleeping man.

Cast

 * Wiia Artmane - Anna
 * Algirdas Paulavicius - Antanas
 * Zane Yanchevsk - Marite
 * Visma Ozolin - Ausma
 * Leonid Obolensky - Valdmanis
 * Janis Paukstello - Ezerins
 * Boleslav Rouge - gypsy
 * Eugenia Shulgaite - mother of Antanas
 * Andris Morkans - Imants
 * Paul Butkevich - “Elk”