White Bells

White Bells

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 3, 1961

Runtime

0h 24m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

60%

Original Title

Baltie zvani

Production Companies

Rīgas kinostudija

Director

Ivars Kraulītis

Description

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.