She'll dunk her way through the Iron Curtain or die trying.
A young woman in Stalin-era Riga joins a basketball team, hoping that she will be allowed to travel abroad and see her brother who's living in exile.
Acting
Budovska's restrained desperation says everything.
Direction
Dreibergs turns basketball games into existential dread.
Production
Period-perfect Riga that feels suffocatingly real.
Director
Dzintars Dreibergs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on real Latvian women's basketball teams used as diplomatic pawns by Soviet authorities. The 'friendship games' were surveillance nightmares.
Director Dreibergs cast actual Latvian basketball players; Agnese Budovska trained for eight months. The physical exhaustion you see is real.
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