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Escape Net

2025 · 110 min

A quietly tense and heartfelt period drama where hope and family loyalty push against a repressive system, with basketball as a fragile escape.

Directed by
Dzintars Dreibergs
Genres
Drama, History
Starring
Agnese Budovska, Evelīna Otto, Artūrs Skrastiņš
Overview
A young woman in Stalin-era Riga joins a basketball team, hoping that she will be allowed to travel abroad and see her brother who's living in exile.

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Directed by
Dzintars Dreibergs
Genres
Drama, History
Starring
Agnese Budovska, Evelīna Otto, Artūrs Skrastiņš
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • freedom
  • survival
  • politics
  • sport
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, history
Directed by
Dzintars Dreibergs
Starring
Agnese Budovska, Evelīna Otto, Artūrs Skrastiņš, Jēkabs Reinis, Artur Smolyaninov, Rēzija Kalniņa, Gatis Gāga, Marta Jančevska
Music
Lolita Ritmanis
Cinematography
Valdis Celmiņš
Runtime
110 min
Country
Latvia
Languages
English, French, Russian, Latvian, German

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