Four White Shirts

Four White Shirts

1967 · 77 min · ★ 6.4 · Drama, Music

Cezars Kalnins installs telephones by day and composes pop songs by night. His band has a hard time receiving the permit from Soviet censorship authorities for a public debut. A member of the Culture Committee superficially listens to Cēzars' songs and deems the lyrics "unsuitable and frivolous” and "unfit for the Soviet youth”, and is later powerless to stop the grindstone of public debate, which she has herself initiated.

Directed by Rolands Kalnins · Written by Gunārs Priede

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