Oleg (2019)
3.5 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 48min
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- Synopsis:
Unfurling along the lines of the innocent who falls victim to another's ill intent and who slowly comes to the terrible realisation that "man is a wolf to man", this gritty, tense and uncompromising film centres on Oleg (Valentin Novopolskij), a butcher from Latvia (who has a unique non-citizen status, which even makes him a stranger in his own country) who unwittingly enters into a world of pain when he disembarks in Belgium as part of a group of workers who have official dispensation to work in a meat factory. Unfairly dismissed following an accident at work and a lie told by a Polish employee - the real guilty party - Oleg finds himself in a desperate situation: he and his grandmother are in serious debt in Latvia, but he no longer has the right to work in Belgium. Happily, a saviour appears in the form of Polish national Andrzej (Dawid Ogrodnik), who claims he wants to make up for the wrong done to Oleg by his fellow countryman by giving him a job and a passport. Oleg moves into a house shared with other Polish workers, but he quickly comes to realise that his benefactor is far less caring than he first appears and that he is trapped in an increasingly perilous situation… - Actors:
- Valentin Novopolskij, Dawid Ogrodnik, Anna Próchniak, Guna Zarina, Adam Szyszkowski, Marcos Adamantiadis, Ronald Beurms, Paulius Cizinauskas, Toussaint Colombani, Jean-Henri Compère, Jurijs Djakonovs, Valentinas Krulikovskis, Edgars Samitis
- Directors:
- Juris Kursietis
- Producers:
- Aija Berzina, Alise Gelze
- Writers:
- Liga Celma-Kursiete, Juris Kursietis, Kaspars Odins
- Genres:
- Drama, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Latvia
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