{"id":1539,"date":"2008-01-24T10:18:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T18:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2008-01-24T10:18:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T18:18:52","slug":"rigas-sargi-defenders-of-riga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/rigas-sargi-defenders-of-riga\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00efgas sargi (Defenders of Riga)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m still waiting to see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1417\">The Singing Revolution<\/a>,&#8221; it appears that there&#8217;s also a new great movie coming out from Latvia as well, &#8220;Defenders of Riga.&#8221; It tells the Latvian equivalent of the Revolutionary War. While it only came out several weeks ago, it&#8217;s the highest budget Latvian movie ever, at $4 mil USD, and has broken all <a href=\"http:\/\/latvianabroad.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/defenders-of-riga.html\">Latvian box office records<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>As the YouTube entry describes: <\/p>\n<p><i>Story is about 11 november 1919. WWI was over but renegade german general with russian aristocrate Bermont- Avalov decided to take control of newly formed Latvia and attacked the capital city Riga. Their army that was formed from mercenaries and german elite divisions was surprisingly defeated by latvian army that had poor equipment and consisted of volunteers. From that day november 11 is a day when we, latvians, remember our patriots that could make a miracle and show the world that we deserved our country<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZnQN2znzofA&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m still waiting to see &#8220;The Singing Revolution,&#8221; it appears that there&#8217;s also a new great movie coming out from Latvia as well, &#8220;Defenders of Riga.&#8221; It tells the Latvian equivalent of the Revolutionary War. While it only came out several weeks ago, it&#8217;s the highest budget Latvian movie ever, at $4 mil USD, and has broken all Latvian box office records. As the YouTube entry describes: Story is about 11 november 1919. WWI was over but renegade german&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[108,131],"tags":[224,235,241,299,303,265,281],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-latvia","category-movies","tag-bermont-avalov","tag-defenders-of-riga","tag-highest-budget-latvian-movie","tag-latvia","tag-movies","tag-riga","tag-wwi","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-oP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}