To save a life means saving the world

The Mover

7.5 (10 votes)• 2018• 87m•Released

History Drama

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Žanis Lipke, an ordinary blue-collar worker in Latvia, embarks on a covert operation. Despite his family’s hardship under successive Soviet and German occupations, Lipke tries to save local Jews from Nazi persecution and certain death, moving them from the Riga ghetto to an underground bunker hidden on his property.

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Production Details

Languages: Yiddish, Latvian, German

Director: Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.

Starring Cast: Artūrs Skrastiņš, Ilze Blauberga, Matīss Kipļuks, Mihails Karasikovs, Toms Treinis, Steffen Scheumann

Cast

Artūrs Skrastiņš

Žanis Lipke

Ilze Blauberga

Johanna Lipke

Matīss Kipļuks

Zigis Lipke

Mihails Karasikovs

Smoļanskis

Toms Treinis

Šarja

Steffen Scheumann

Lēmans

Imants Erdmans

Vācu oficieris

Madara Paegļkalns

Mina

Arnis Ozols

Blūms

Henrijs Arājs

Alfrēds Lipke

Elza Alberiņa

Aina Lipke

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