A free adaptation of “The Book of High Wisdom of the World and Nature” by the 18th century Baltic German pastor, author, and scholar G. F. Stender who spent the last thirty years of his life in a remote corner of Courland.
Gotthard Friedrich Stender lives among Latvians and studies their language and customs with great interest, resolutely trying to understand, enlighten and educate them. For this reason, he writes “Latvian physics” explaining the arrangement of the solar system, the origin of various natural phenomena and other wonders of the world. Latvians are eager students, yet somehow, they still manage to combine the new teachings with their superstitious beliefs. But what happens when the book is finished, and nature explained?
Type of work: Fiction film
Genre: Historical drama
Stage: First cut without sound post production, colour grading, music
Looking for: Festivals, distributors
Contacts: gunda@berghein.com
Lāsma Bērtule is a film director from Latvia. She studied film and theater theory and later film directing and has made experimental short films, a short horror-musical and worked as film/video artist in performances and theater. She is one of the co-founders of filmlab Baltic Analog Lab, and program curator at Experimental Film Festival Process.
Gunda is an emerging film producer from Latvia. After BA studies she worked as a freelance Line Producer and Production Manager. In 2017 she founded her production company Berghein Production and produced multiple short films, commercials, music videos and two feature films (one is in post—production phase).
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