Jānis Kalējs
Biography
Jānis Kalējs (born 1965 in Riga) is a Latvian producer and film director. Kalējs was one of four contributing directors awarded the Lielais Kristaps Best Film award in 2007 for the film Vogelfrei.
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Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Alice von Trota returns to her father’s manor in Latvia in 1919 to sell it and start a new life. She meets the hostile resistance of the local workers and discovers she has been lured into a carefully tailored trap set by a demonic lawyer, a decadent underground organisation and its necrophile leader. While escaping the clutches of her “helpers”, she meets some silent-cinema enthusiasts and learns to use the cinematograph as a tool for healing and self-discovery, as a weapon against her enemies and as a way to create a masterpiece.