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A portrait of the demise and fall of the Soviet Empire as seen through the eyes of the people who endured it. The film explores the power of human spirit in its battle against adversity.
Director: Peter King
Director: Peter King
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00:10Karels is a criminal region.
00:14I don't know why.
00:15I don't know why.
00:17That's how it is.
00:18That's how it is.
00:19That's how it is.
00:20That's how it is.
00:21It is more than a problem.
00:24It is a problem.
00:25No problem.
00:26I saw her when she was gone.
00:32It's a problem with the people's problems.
00:37It's not a problem with the people's problems.
00:39There are lots of people.
00:41They are broken.
00:42They are broken.
00:43They are not used for people.
00:46They are difficult.
00:47It's very special.
00:48It's a little bit of a smile and a little bit of a smile, a little bit of a smile.
00:54The shadow, which is a graffiti, and that's what it's all about.
01:00It's also a little bit of a smile and a smile.
01:42People think that we are monsters, I just can't explain why.
01:48They are wrong, at least I know they are wrong.
02:07The city lost 25,000 inhabitants and of course all those 25,000 inhabitants were spending
02:15life in Karooste.
02:18They lived in Karooste, they used all infrastructure for Karooste.
02:24In one day we lose everything.
02:48Karooste was made at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
02:5350 kilometers from here, from Lepa, there is a border with Lithuania.
02:58And Lithuania belonged to Germany.
03:00This part belonged to Sarov Russia.
03:03And he was preparing to war with Germans.
03:05So he needed very strong protection somewhere here close to the border.
03:16Karooste was made at the end of the 19th century.
03:26Karooste was made at the end of the 19th century, the city was released on the 19th century.
03:52And, well, he was building in the city, where there was a part of the city,
04:00and there was a hospital, and there was a building of the officer's office.
04:06And then he was building a building.
04:19And then he was building a building of the air.
04:27And to build it, he called out of France.
04:38And who built in France a building of the city?
04:45What?
04:51During the Soviet time, that area was closed for civil persons.
04:56There lived just military persons and their families.
04:58And Karoste from the beginning, it was made as absolutely independent town,
05:03small town from Liepāja town.
05:13You know what?
05:15You know what?
05:15There was a building of the city.
05:18There was a building of the city.
05:28There was a building of the city.
05:33And there was a building of the city.
05:39There was a building of the city.
05:54There was a building of the city.
05:58There was a building of the city.
06:00There was a building of the city.
08:21Soviet Union.
08:23Because there were only
08:26the army,
08:27and they started to be
08:31already,
08:33when there was
08:34Latvia,
08:36Estonia,
08:37and Lutva
08:38were already
08:38as a matter of
08:41after
08:42Gorbachev
08:43said
08:45that
08:46first
08:48Gorbachev
08:49and then
08:50Zeltsin
08:51said
08:52that
08:53have
08:53as
08:55as
08:57as
08:57as
08:58as
08:58as
08:59as
09:00as
09:00as
09:01as
09:01as
09:01as
09:01as
09:01as
09:02as
09:02as
09:02everything
09:03is
09:03as
09:04the
09:06as
09:20as
09:21citizens
09:23have
09:24worked
09:25They were working in the military organizations, so they needed to be where they were going to do it, but
09:34everything was left.
09:37They were not able to take the furniture, everything was in the homes, and people could go to this apartment
09:46and live.
09:53It was a possibility for them also to see what has been hidden there for 100 years.
10:00And they entered that area, and if somebody saw that this house has more beautiful doors than I have, then
10:06why shouldn't I take it?
10:08They took even baths and sometimes doors and windows and everything that they could take off this flat.
10:15That was time when this area was destroyed.
10:21It was told for people here in the city center that it's dangerous.
10:25When it gets dark, it's dangerous to go there because there are Russians and they will ask you questions.
10:30Why are you here and what you are doing and so on. It was a bit dangerous.
10:34They celebrated Russian festivals and everything that involved military celebrations and some parades and everything like that, birthday of the
10:43Tsar of Russia and so on.
10:45But they didn't celebrate much of Latvian festivals. And the reason might be the one that those people were from
10:54different parts of Russia and the language that they were communicating, using for communication, it was Russian language.
11:02And then they decided, that they would live here and Latvian people.
11:18They have to leave here and Because they responded.
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11:30And sometime they would retain it that they wanted.
11:33And they would turn back yet though they sw mashup.
11:34And they won't pick off their hands, and then they would run up the Nazis and get out.
11:36For Russian people.
11:36And more 먼ู้s of Otvian� putting the Nazis in the village to国.
11:38And they have to leave their arms.
11:47all my family live only in this room because it was Soviet Union and we have neighbors right next
11:54door not like next door but next room and they have again family and another small family live
12:02in the small room and we have one kitchen for everyone and one bathroom and one toilet so it
12:11was hard time how I said well only because I was child for me it was like wow so good
12:19I have so
12:20many friends so big family so good to live in here when we moved I thought oh it's like a
12:30pit stop
12:31that's like in Karasta but it wasn't it was my new home now it's my home I don't know the
12:41reason
12:41it just was like a letter from the council like sorry but you should empty this place I feel now
12:52like so it's still something for me they still my home and it's not so good it's not good feeling
13:07the taxi drivers wouldn't drive out here I mean they said no no we don't bring you out there
13:16помощи действительно знаю такое что скорая помощь отказывалась ехать на помощь к маленькому
13:21ребенку и что эту проблему решили только тогда когда позвонили главврачу городу это лично было при
13:26мне кто сумел жить то живет не сумел погибай I live in here for 15 years and it's not really
13:43so bad
13:44place I mean I like this place it's my home it looks not so good but it's still good from
13:53inside I
13:54remember the building before it was like yellow color and with bright and I don't remember actually
14:05green or blue Balkans so it was beauty and now it's more like gray nobody took care of it so
14:17it became
14:18this kind of absolutely lawless territory and there was no there was no police there was no arm and
14:24there was no nothing and and most of it was just demolished and and robed by yannam garotki
14:35живет русские алкоголики наркоманы и бомжи так скажите пожалуйста кто я творятся
14:43the city council started to made number of decisions what to do
15:13is the buildings in karostom and one of the options was also to have some partner organizations to support us
15:22in
15:22this particular business we asked private sector to participate in renovation and also to bring those
15:31buildings from the city but I fortunately also private sector was quite poor in this period of time
16:02I remember when I was here the first times then in the area here was
16:07several these metal points where you could give metal and get money for it yeah and all of them
16:14were open 24 hours a night several not one two three but like four five six in the area so
16:20people just
16:20took things sell it so the the place was robbed in a very very short time and so this legend
16:27about when
16:28the Soviet army left everything was demolished it's not true it was left in a quite good condition and
16:34then the the robbery and and the lawlessness that happened like the year and year and a half
16:39after and then it continued and it still continues in in some senses
17:06so if we could get a kind of money for the best then specifically for the property as well and
17:13then itako is
17:13people who suffer from alcoholism or something, of course, this city won't be destroyed.
17:28I recently, two years ago, gave me a house here.
17:33It was very sad when you read in the newspaper, that the military city is a tomb of the city.
17:39How do you understand that people who have no money that can't pay for the house for the house here?
17:49But they are the same people as we all, they are not guilty if they think they should wear a
17:54child or pay for the house.
18:00From Lepaia city people, they have always looked up on Karosta as something alien, something apart.
18:08And then all of a sudden it is not, all of a sudden it is actually no more these slag
18:13bombs or these closed areas.
18:17You can go here, well now you can't because of the bridge.
18:21But, so there is, if you go to the mental mind of people, then that has been growing in from
18:27generation to generation,
18:29that there is Lepaia and there is Karosta, that is two different things.
18:33And from 1994, all of a sudden, it is an open area again.
18:41Maybe they are from a good part of the city, I mean city centre.
18:47Maybe their parents have good cars and a good job.
18:53But, I don't think that they are different.
19:00They also smoke cigarettes in ten years somewhere, I don't know.
19:06I did it in the forest or on the beach.
19:09But maybe they have some, I don't know, underground place or something like this, so where they can hide.
19:17But, I don't think so.
19:19But, I know that we are the same, but they think that only because I am from Karosta, I am
19:27not the same like them.
19:41When I was a child, me and my friends, we always like hide in that place.
19:48And, it was funny, we have some favourite places in there.
19:55I remember some room, it was like no others and we always smoke in there.
20:07And, it was like our own place and nobody know about it.
20:14We saw it like that, but people can visit it anytime they want.
20:21So, when I was about eight or nine, or maybe even seven, went to the shop and asked for one
20:31bottle of vodka, for example.
20:33Just for fun.
20:35And, it wasn't problem to get it.
20:38Just, I can't say like, this is for my dad.
20:46And, yeah, why not take it.
20:50It was easy.
20:55I remember this place when I was too young about, I am not sure actually.
21:02I found in here a lot of beautiful wood pieces.
21:08It looked like wood pieces in there.
21:12But, it was like this.
21:14With the holes inside and different sizes, yeah.
21:20I collect them in the one bag.
21:22I saw that I can give all this and present to my mom.
21:28When I went home, I met the woman and she told me, what are you doing?
21:34What is in your bag?
21:35And, I said, it's wood pieces.
21:38And, she told me, this is bones, human bones.
21:43So, after that, I went back and put all of them back near the sea on the beach, right on
21:53the stones.
21:54It was, it was a shock for me, but not for a long time.
21:58I just remember the day when I have full bag of human bones.
22:14And, I said, there is a story about this.
22:27There is a story that wrote about this.
22:35There were prisoners who were killed by Jews.
22:39There was a lot of prisoners.
22:43We had a picture of them.
22:45This place is beautiful not because of bones.
22:48I like this place since I was too young to speak.
22:56I can swim in here.
22:57I can dream in here.
22:59I can sleep in here.
23:01Maybe not in winter time, but in summer.
23:04Easy.
23:04Why not?
23:05Just for relaxing.
23:07Me and nature.
23:08Nothing else.
23:23People just know that this part of the city is like the end of the city.
23:29So, maybe they found this place like a good place for killing or to try to leave the body.
23:43Why?
23:43I just don't know why.
23:46But I remember a lot of stories when somebody was found in somewhere like in the empty house or right
24:01behind the pub or in some empty or even not empty flat or somewhere else.
24:10So, it's like normal here.
24:17Maybe somebody killed somebody for some reason.
24:24And he knows that this body will be found.
24:28But he's doing like special.
24:31I will go and put it in Karasta because it's the place where the bodies were found not once, not
24:40twice, not even ten times.
25:01The people think bad about Karasta only because they remember the time when Karasta was like a place where people
25:15who don't pay these bills or, I don't know why, had problems with the living area.
25:22They were in town and they must be like moved in here.
25:27So, it was the beginning when the people started thinking that Karasta is not so good for living and for
25:34like Karasta is not so safe.
25:44They must try it from inside.
25:47Try all this life from inside.
25:50Not like they can see like all these great buildings or empty houses or abandoned houses.
25:57No.
25:59I mean, maybe they need just one chance to try it, to be like us, to live in this place,
26:08to buy something in our shops, to wear our clothes.
26:15So, we are safe.
26:33So, we have to get an animal in the room.
26:33On the big one, we will be safe.
26:35We are safe.
26:36We will be safe.
26:37We will be safe.
26:37And there's no shelter for the people.
26:43That's where we ride.
26:45We are well safe.
26:48We are safe.
26:50We are safe.
26:50We are safe.
27:01We don't need a hero, we need a good man and a lot of hands.
27:08In Lepaia people call him Kalle, he is from Sweden and he came here, he is artist himself
27:14and he was so impressed about the things that he saw in this area.
27:19He made this K-Alpha II organization and they are also, they own few of the buildings from Sars time.
27:28They have made art gallery, contemporary art gallery K-Alpha II.
27:36They had so wide program, so many projects like learning Latvian for free for Russian people
27:46or kids room or some, I don't know, workshops or celebration of some holidays like together.
28:01So they have so many four people from Karasta.
28:07Still have. They play a really big part in our lives.
28:17The meaning of K-A-II, it has two meanings.
28:21Because it's the name of this house, it's a cathedral, street number two, so it's K-A-II, it's very
28:25simple.
28:26But also in Latvian, legs is K-A-I-A.
28:30So to walk by foot, in Latin you say K-II, you walk by K-II, so that's walking by
28:37foot.
28:38And that's what we did in the beginning, we had no funding, nothing, so we just walked around, tried to
28:41make some deals.
28:44So that's one. And then if you use this leg thing then I think that K-II is standing on
28:49two legs.
28:49One is extremely local, like even so local that it's not Lepa, it's a Karastan leg, yeah.
28:56But the other leg I think is very international.
29:01It can take this leg to Europe or to North America or to Australia or South Africa or whatever.
29:07You need to open them to Moscow, no problem.
29:09Because since we who started this out, we come from film documentary background and we're travelling quite a lot
29:16and with a big network of all kind of creative artists from all over the world, not to exaggerate at
29:22all.
29:23So bringing in here good artists, high professionals, wasn't any problem in the beginning and is even easier today.
29:34And so that's the international leg.
29:38So I think K-II stands for a joint venture between extremely local and very global.
29:47It's something that matches good together.
29:59Outro music.
30:02The mine knows that she doesn't refuse it.
31:00Khartoum came to the city with
31:02this proposal.
31:03Could you rent us those buildings for a very symbolic price?
31:08In that period of time, of course, the city council made the decision, yes, we are willing
31:13to rent, and, for example, today they are paying one pound for a year just to rent these properties.
31:23Therefore, this was only one way how to protect existing buildings.
31:33Now we have a master plan, we do have that, and I think it's a very logical master plan
31:38that there is a centre where you can live and where you can eat, and you can call it either
31:44a hotel or a hostel or whatever, but one unit where there is eating, sleeping, like a headquarter,
31:54yeah.
31:55And then there is one unit that is for education, and then one unit which is an exhibition hall
32:01or conference centre where the students that are being taught, they can also show their
32:07works, and now you see it on a scale that maybe is like this, that there is 15 students making
32:12small exhibitions, but what we see in our master plan is that in some years from now there
32:17is 80 or 100 students that make several exhibitions in the big house.
32:21It's the same thing, it's just not growing organically.
32:25Good morning, everyone.
32:27Good morning.
32:28Good morning.
32:29Good morning.
32:29Good morning.
32:31I want to be a pleasure to you to see that this is a big set of big
32:32big plans.
32:34Thank you for showing us an interest to our first competition.
32:39We wish you to be critical.
32:42You can be focused on the carst and the AFT.
32:46Come in!
32:59I remember when I first time came to K2, so it was so happy for me, like, wow, this is
33:12really good center for kids, because they have kids' room in there.
33:18We had, like, a chance to use the internet for free, and a PC computer, one of the first
33:27ones, like Pentium One or something like this, and they have some games or playing stuff for
33:40children.
33:41It was so happy for me, just found this place, like, not second home, no, but, like, kid
33:53dream.
33:55I remember one very positive feeling that I got from the local community was when we started
34:02to put in this, what do we call it, central heating system in this house.
34:07Yeah, and then you started to feel a rumor that you got a positive response from the
34:13locals and said, oh, they are serious, because you don't put in so big money and so, you know,
34:20a big effort into building if they don't continue to stay.
34:27And don't think, but I know that when we started out here, everybody said that, no.
34:33No use, if they are so stupid, then let them do it, and so on.
34:39And I know that in those days, we were looked upon, like, okay, artists coming in, maybe they'll
34:45paint some of the windows in pink color for one summer and paint some graffiti on some walls,
34:51and then they will disappear, I mean, this was the attitude, but then step by step, real
34:57results, renovations, international events, publications, some kind of rumors and some kind
35:08of vibrations and so, and then in the period from 2003, 4, 5, 6, then was like, whoa, something's
35:17happened.
35:17And then the bridge went away.
35:20And then all of a sudden, all these hopes kind of, they shattered in some sense.
35:28One of our mates came to us and said, hey, lads, have you seen what's happened with the bridge?
35:37And we said, no, what's happened?
35:40And he said, like, you should go and watch on it.
35:44And it was so fucking terrible, because no more bridge.
35:52It's really, really bad for Karasta people.
35:55I think that bridge destruction was made by city council, especially, because we had
36:02a lot of news that city council want to close the bridge, but because of people, they can't.
36:10We, of course, keep people every day, all the time using this bridge.
36:17So, they just can't do that.
36:20And they find a way.
36:23They took a tanker, empty one, and when it leave the port, it just go to the bridge and
36:35destroy it.
36:37Just like this.
36:39So, it's the end of the story.
36:41I mean, they did what they want.
36:45The bridge is closed.
36:47It's easy.
36:50I think it's clever.
36:53Clever for them, not for us.
37:06This comment I heard approximately 12 minutes after the bridge went away.
37:12It was not, okay, 13 minutes, but not more.
37:18It was a telephone call, because I went, I was, I didn't see the accident, but our bookkeeper
37:25saw it, and she told me to go down and have a look, because she thought something was wrong
37:29with the bridge.
37:29And I went down and I saw it, and then when I stand and I look at this, my mobile
37:34telephone
37:35is ringing, and a friend of mine said, it's fixed.
37:52The previous year, we started a search for funding, and with national government, we find resources
38:03to renovate this bridge, and we are planning in this year to finish this particular project.
38:10It means the bridge will be historically designed, like it was, but of course with new technical
38:20equipment.
38:26Just yesterday or two days ago, I read on the web that the bridge should be up and running
38:33by the end of this year, which I can't believe, but if it's written, then let's hope for it.
38:39And that means that there will be a connection again, and then we can keep on working.
38:43But right now, there is not a good connection, not on this level, not on this level, and not
38:49on any level actually, it's a big chaos right now.
39:20There are changes in the other way, it's not in the best way, but in the worst way.
39:25Why wouldn't we do roads here?
39:27We don't put light, there are no lights, there are no lights.
39:31People would put lights here, people would be able to relax, sit there, nothing is.
39:37You see, nothing is absolutely nothing.
39:54Of course, we are not ready in one day to take down all buildings, which also build during
40:02the Soviet time.
40:04But step by step, I think this particular block housing area will be redeveloped, and therefore,
40:14usually with potential investors, I'm visiting Carvesta myself.
40:21But, of course, we need a little bit more time to make the changes.
40:27Of course, there is always a question, maybe the best way is to sail like it is, because
40:36if there will be a number of changes, then the Carvesta will also lose something.
40:42Therefore, in fact, it's a very hard decision-making process also for politicians, which direction
40:48to choose.
40:50We have a number of projects which is under development, for example, a swimming pool,
40:55which will be built and partly used by the Latvian Navy and also partly by inhabitants of
41:03Liepais city.
41:07I heard about swimming pool about five or maybe even more years ago.
41:12Maybe they will.
41:13Maybe they will.
41:14I mean, they will build this swimming pool and makes like dream come true.
41:22But something tell me from inside that it will be like not for people from Carvesta.
41:30If it will be like so good and so new, it will be expensive.
41:41Carvesta's people can visit this place maybe once.
41:48So…
41:53I think people who live in Carvesta, like me, start thinking like now we have some respect
42:02between us, between me and my neighbours and other people, because we are living like…
42:11and close eyes on all these talking, like Carvesta is not so good and we close eyes on all
42:19these people which have real problems with alcohol or drug using.
42:26So, yeah, it starts like… with respect.
42:32Everyday life is full of contrast, really, positive and negative, black and white.
42:39For any creative person, I think it's a must to have the contrast.
42:44And in Carvesta is full of contrast.
43:11And in Carvesta is full of interest.
43:25My favorite thing in Karvesta, I think it's military prison, because that was one of the
43:30first things that I knew and that I saw in Karvesta.
43:45I like it, because it's the sea, I'm sleeping here, the air is good here.
43:53Because it's a kind of hell, the sea is next, everything is next.
43:57It's good to live here, it's good to live in the center, it's crazy.
44:02It's still my Karvesta, it's still my home, it's still the place where I like to spend my life.
44:30I can close my eyes for a moment and see like another life in Karvesta, another life not for me
44:39but for all people in here.
44:44And it's really like a happy life, without problems, not without problems, everywhere's problems, not because of living area.
44:55But without all these bad stories, without all these wrong opinions, without all these abandoned houses,
45:11and with good future, and with sunny days.
45:23You know, that I walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk.
45:45In October and in November, when the snow fell, I was already dead.
45:56I go to the sea and walk to the sea, and one of the men stopped me, and a woman,
46:03she didn't know me, she was already photographed.
46:05And she said, what are you still alive? And in the seventh school, they said that you've already died.
46:19These are your competitors.
46:28For somebody, like for me, Kara stays home for her whole life.
46:34I know that this place is so beautiful, but now it's like have dirty face.
46:44And somebody can help to wash this dirty face.
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