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Beta Film Picks Up ‘Soviet Jeans’ Ahead of Series Mania, Reveals Stills of an ‘Unconventional’ Take on Soviet Latvia – With a Touch of ‘Finding Nemo’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Showrunners Stanislavs Tokalovs and Teodora Markova talk ‘Soviet Jeans’ and ‘Finding Nemo.’
Set in Riga in the late 1970s and based on multiple true stories, it zooms in onto young rock fan Renars (Karlis Arnolds Avots), sent to a mental asylum for political reasons. Still, the realities of Soviet Latvia will be mirrored in the series, assured Tokalovs, who also co-directs alongside Juris Kursietis. “With its nostalgic, humoristic approach, ‘Soviet Jeans’ caught our attention immediately,” Veronika Kovacova, Beta EVP sales & acquisitions, observed.
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