The Orange Angel

The Orange Angel

1989 · 10 min · Documentary

Household waste containers were not in use in Riga during the 80ies. So the city-dwellers had to wait for the orange rubbish collection cars, Norbas, to arrive at a certain time of day...

Directed by Andrejs Apsītis · Written by Andrejs Apsītis

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