Green Land
Kokko Jaana
Green Land takes place in rural Latvia. Its key image – the gestalt of history – is a concrete sculpture by Rasma Bruzīte from 1952. Depicting a collective farm worker, it personifies both personal as well as state memory, in different ways. The main characters, former collective farm workers Irēna, Veronika and Lūcija, recount their experiences, offering us a glimpse of a bygone era and openly participating in the performance offered to them. The title of the film comes from the concept of a green, verdant land. It is also the title of a classic book by Latvian writer Andrejs Upīts, a Soviet-era epic to which the young literary scholar Arnis, has devoted his life to. Green Land is the second part of Kokko’s Baltic trilogy.
Vihreä maa
Green Land
12 works