Victorious Return


Victorious Return is a 1947 Soviet Latvian film directed by Aleksander Ivanov and. The film was directed by the Riga Film Studio.
The television broadcast of the film on Latvian TV in 1954 was the full first television broadcast in Latvian history.
The film is based on the play Victory by Vilis Lācis.

Plot

During World War II, Soviet Army lieutenant Augusts Grieze, while covering the retreat of his comrades, is captured by the enemy. The Germans, unable to extract any useful information from him, resort to discrediting him by broadcasting a fabricated message on the radio in which Grieze allegedly calls on his fellow Latvians to lay down their arms. However, during an aerial attack, Grieze manages to escape and joins the partisans in Latvia|partisans], adopting a false identity. As the Soviet [occupation of the Baltic states (1944)|Soviets retake Riga], Grieze, now one of the most successful and fearless fighters, is determined to clear his name and find the true traitor, Paulis Nagla, who had infiltrated the ranks of the Red Army.

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