Renars – R&R fan and a scammer – is committed to a mental asylum, where he starts an underground jean manufacturing for his survival. He partners with the Director who gets a good profit and in return promises Renars freedom. The jeans gain popularity and Renars becomes an anonymous underground legend. Eventually, KGB corners Renars, but they can’t prove anything. The conflict between Renars and the KGB agent, Maris, rises beyond the jeans and the criminal matters, it becomes a clash of life ideologies and form of protest, a cause.
Type of work: Series
Genre: Comedy, drama
Episodes per season: 8
Stage: Pre-production
Producer: Aija Berzina/ Tasse Film
Looking for: co-producers, broadcasters, partners
Contacts: aija@tasse.lv, +371 26466014
Aija Bērziņa is one of the most successful producers in Latvia, her first film Mellow Mud‘ (dir. Renars Vimba, 2017) was premiered in Berlinale and won a Crystal Bear for best film in the Generation 14plus, and Oleg (dir. Juris Kursietis) was selected for Quinzaine, Cannes 2019.
Stanislavs Tokalovs is a Latvian director, screenwriter and producer. His second feature film Lovable premiered on September 21, 2022.