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After the establishment of Soviet power in Latvia and its incorporation into the Soviet Union, Moscow took control over Latvian cinematography. The Soviet government became the only official producer.
The Latvian film industry underwent strong pressures of censorship in the 1940's. At that time masses of people were being deported to Siberia. However, filmmakers from Moscow and Leningrad, together with Latvians in favour of Soviet ideology, made films about victorious Soviet life in Latvia.
Petukhovs's short films BREZHNIEVS FOOT and STALINS FIST illustrate the individual style of a director, as well es his ability to choose and direct an actor ithout jeopardising the story content. As a result of his extraordinary talent, his works are the foundation of the contemporary Latvian film school.
THE LAST SOVIET MOVIE - it was literally in production as the Soviet Union closed down - is shot in the radical eclectic style that mixes Sergio Leone Westerns with Tarkovsky and Monty Python. The film can also been seen as a tribute and satire of old Soviet action heroes as seen in such popular films as CHAPAYEV (1934).
Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Vertov would be horrified. But THE LAST SOVIET MOVIE is both a lament for and the final nail in the coffin of what once was Soviet cinema.
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