A Latvian spy thriller where love and liberation collide behind the Iron Curtain.
Season 1 • Episode 12
LatestA drama about the national resistance movement in Latvia after the Soviet occupation. Events take place in 1949 when the British intelligence service MI6 tries to find out about the situation in the Baltic States occupied by the Soviet Union. Wittold (Jekabs Reinis), together with other Latvians, works hard in his daily work, and Velta (Agnese Cirule) is a nurse. They dream of going to the United States, saving money, planning a wedding and arranging the necessary documents because the US carefully selects emigrants. But Wittold decides to take part in the Mission, and the hope of changing history changes his life.
Acting
Jēkabs Reinis carries impossible weight in every glance
Production
Painstaking period detail of Soviet-occupied Riga
Writing
True events that feel more devastating than fiction
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Forest Brothers' were actual anti-Soviet partisans whose story was suppressed until 1991; this series helped Latvians reclaim this erased history.
MI6 genuinely ran Operation Jungle to infiltrate agents into the Baltics via boats from 1949-1955; most were captured immediately due to Soviet double agents.
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