1384643
1384643

Nord Express

2024-11-28 lv 92m
Documentary
A documentary detective film about the construction of a 870 kilometres long highspeed railway line that started with a dream to connect the Baltic States to rest of the Europe when in 1991 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania regained their independence from Soviet Union. Filmmaker Kārlis Lesiņš becomes a ‘citizen-investigator’ and goes on the road to find out why after 30 years and with only few years before the intended launch of the Rail Baltica railway line, the construction of this EU-funded project is significantly behind the schedule, over the budget and may never be finished at all. Kārlis follows the trail of Rail Baltica project, trying to get the answers - what has happened and what is happening? Traveling through all the involved countries, he meets officials, military personnel, investigative journalists, people whose land will be expropriated, employees implementing the project and potentially benefiting entrepreneurs, who open up to him with their versions of the story.

Director

Kārlis Lesiņš

Director of Photography

Ivo Skanstiņš

Editor

Toms Krauklis

Sound Director

Siim Škepast

Producer

Elīna Gediņa-Ducena

Producer

Gints Grūbe

Status

Released

Countries

  • Latvia
  • Germany
  • Poland
  • Estonia

Companies

  • Mistrus Media
  • Allfilm
  • Staron Film
  • Beetz Brothers Film Production