RED CODE BLUE
TUMŠZILAIS EVANĢĒLIJS
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Latvia (2025)
Crime Drama | Latvian with English subtitles | 148 min Directed by: Oskars Rupenheits
In Person: Sunday, March 1, 6:40 pm
Q&A session with director Oskars Rupenheits, DOP Juris Pīlēns, producer Sinitija Andersone,
lead actor Raitis Stūrmanis & location manager Amanda Rēvalde to follow screening.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Young police detective Roman Skulte starts working in the Riga Precinct in the mid-90s. He is full of juice, ready to take on crime, but he soon confronts a harsh truth: to fight crime, he must break the rules. Will he sacrifice integrity for justice?
The film was shot over a two-and-a-half-year period, from 2022 to 2025. It was filmed entirely in Riga, using various interior and exterior locations that still retain a Soviet-era atmosphere, as the story is set in 1995. The police station scenes were filmed and the whole set built in a former rubber factory and parts of the old KGB building. Some of the locations underwent renovation shortly after filming, allowing us to capture and preserve elements of historic environments that no longer exist today.