composer Lolita Ritmanis dreamed of tackling an “epic” Latvian film, in tribute to her heritage as a Latvian-American. In 2019, she finally was able to do so with Blizzard of Souls ...

Latvia’s biggest grosser in the last 30 years, 'Blizzard of Souls,' is the harrowing autobiographical ... Little surprise, then, that the film adaptation, one of the most expensive in the ...

A naïve teenager comes of age amid the carnage of World War I’s Eastern Front in this propulsive adaptation of Aleksandrs Grins’ 1934 patriotic classic “Blizzard of Souls.” With its ...

Blizzard of Souls is the true story, right down to the last details, of a 16-year-old kid named Arthur (Brantevics in his film debut) who decides to go fight in the war, enlisting with his father ...

That is about as harrowing as this movie, directed by Dzintars Dreibergs from a 1934 novel by Aleksandrs Grins, gets. As so many war pictures do, “Blizzard of Souls” tells the story of a young ...

The movie’s young protagonist is Arturs (Oto ... Even with a thinly drawn lead, “Blizzard of Souls” maintains an undeniably raw power as a small country’s coming-of-age story, told through ...

as the Pixar film “Soul” and the Latvian film “Blizzard of Souls” took the top prizes for outstanding original scores for 2020 films. The “Soul” composing trio of Trent Reznor ...

Lolita Ritmanis was a surprise on the shortlist for “Blizzard of Souls” and when a “shocker ... Watch the fifteen films before you vote. There’s still time.