Films - OLEG

OLEG

Film Info

Latvia 2019 | 108 min. Director: Juris Kursietis

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OLEG

Synopsis

Belgium, today: Oleg is a young Latvian butcher. He arrives in Brussels in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory.
His experience turns short after being betrayed by a colleague.
Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls under the yoke of Andrzej, a Polish criminal …

Cast & Crew

Director

Juris Kursietis
Producer

Alise Gelze, Aija Berzina, Lukas Trimonis, Isabelle Truc, Guillaume de Seille
Screenwriter

Juris Kursietis, Kaspars Odins, Liga Celma-Kursiete
Director of photography

Bogumil Godfrejow
Main Cast

Valentin Novopolskij (Oleg), Dawid Ogrodnik (Andrzej), Anna Próchniak (Malgosia), Adam Szyszkowski (Krzysztof), Guna Zarina (Zita)
Editor (Cut)

Matyas Veress
Sound

Vytis Puronas
Production Design

Laura Dislere
VFX Supervisor

Vytautas Kazlauskas
Costume Design

Inese Kalva
Makeup

Maija Gundare

Director's comment

OLEG is a man’s initiation into manhood. Looking from this perspective, it is very easy to understand the initial intention of Oleg’s actions, i.e. to go abroad alone and accept his financial abilities and personal weaknesses. In modern society, the question of initiation into manhood becomes increasingly important – men in their thirties are still lacking decisiveness. Oleg also portrays modern day slavery in the very heart of Europe – Brussels. Forced by various circumstances, people have to go to other countries to work in order to earn a livelihood, but the huge impersonal mechanism gives rise to the possibility of being exposed to inhuman conditions. Whatever Oleg’s character may be, no one deserves to end up under the physical and psychological terror that Andrzej uses on him.

Biography

Juris Kursietis (1983) worked for six years on Latvian national television as an international journalist. After a Master’s degree in Cinema from the Northern Media School in the UK, he became an assistant director on a number of Latvian movies.
He directed his first feature-length film MODRIS, between 2012 and 2013.

Filmography:
2019 - OLEG
2014 - MODRIS
2008 - WILL HAVE IT TOMORROW, short
2007 - THE BICYCLE STORY, short