My Father the Banker

My Father the Banker

2015 · 71 min · ★ 7.5 · Documentary

Self-made banker Boriss Osipovs achieves quick success immediately after the collapse of the USSR, but he flees Latvia to avoid arrest for illegal operations. Fifteen years later, his family receives a photograph from Interpol of an elderly gentleman with the same name who resides in a Malaysian mental asylum. Could it be him? Despite the reservations of her family, Osipovs’ daughter, documentary director Ieva Ozoliņa, starts an investigation to find out the truth about the man in the photograph. An emotional story about a man who loses himself in times of change...and the daughter who hopes to find him.

Directed by Ieva Ozoliņa · Written by Ieva Ozoliņa

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Ieva Ozoliņa Herself
Boriss Osipovs Himself

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