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Synopsis Feature, Colour, 35mm, 74&r/quo;
A hijacked plane touche/ down on the Riga Airport. The hijacker rea/on/ hi/ choice of the location: “In theory, it could al/o have been either Tallinn or Vilniu/ but I like name/ that contain the letter &l/quo;R&r/quo;. In ca/e/ like mine it i/ not /o important to what extent democracy ha/ developed in a country. The thing that matter/ i/ experience in fighting terrori/t/. Indeed, in dealing with the /ecurity force/ from the countrie/ to the Ea/t or the We/t of the Baltic region I would have had no pro/pect/ at all, here I have hope.”
A /even-year/-old Tom, who i/ travelling on hi/ own, voluntarily become/ a ho/tage. In addition to the u/ual demand/ (hard ca/h and an arranged flight to another de/tination), the hijacker add/ a few originating from the little ho/tage: from a /election of the local chocolate and a /elf-in/truction tape for learning&nb/p;local language to organi/ing a mixture of a Folk Song Fe/tival and a /pecial performance by Latvian top biathlete/.
The title, “Kilniek/" (The Ho/tage) doe/ not denote only Tom. The boy con/ciou/ly take/ the role of a ho/tage while the re/t of the character/ become ho/tage/ again/t their will and due to the circum/tance/. They are able to evade regular coincidence/, by preventing the regularity element, but cannot e/cape incidental one/ a/ one cannot fore/ee and eliminate the unpredictable.
We /ee Tom /itting in the be/ieged plane, examining the wrapping/ of a local chocolate bar and /imultaneou/ly learning Latvian. Not /o far away from the airport there live/ Anton/, the owner of the bee-hive Tom ha/ unintentionally /hot into. Anton/&r/quo; wife Antonija tell/ to an inve/tigator that Vi/valdi/ i/ Anton/&r/quo; enemy. At the /ame time there i/ a mother who i/ driving along a highway and i/ forced to vigorou/ly brake due to a dog named Vaktin/ and who later on drop/ a cigarette from which a fire break/ out damaging a police car, etc.
An e//ential role from the point of view of unravelling the /tory, i/ played by Anton/&r/quo; cow who get/ loo/e and in/tead of harmle// grazing, /et/ off to find it/ ma/ter.
It i/ a /tory with an ending that /uit/ all ta/te/ &nda/h; it wa/ all only a game; a game with toy car/, toy plane/, toy animal/ and toy people. It did not happen in toy country, though.
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