Following the Swan Flock of Clouds
1957, Latvian. Directed by Pāvels Armands.
The first film in a duology based on the biography of Latvian revolutionary Jānis Fabricius. Mārtiņš Venta, the son of a forest ranger, enrolls in a Riga gymnasium and becomes an underground activist, while his classmate, Dace, a teacher's daughter, is expelled from the Riga school for singing the revolutionary song Kā gulbji balti padebeši iet. Dace becomes an actress, but Mārtiņš is drafted into the tsar's army. He refuses to participate in the shooting of a workers' demonstration and is sentenced to exile, but before his deportation, Mārtiņš is allowed to marry Dace in prison.
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Latvian
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- Released
- 8 August 1957
- Original title
- Kā gulbji balti padebeši iet
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Jūlijs Vanags, Semyon Nagorny
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Following the Swan Flock of Clouds runs 79 minutes (1h 19m).
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Following the Swan Flock of Clouds isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 8 August 1957. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed Following the Swan Flock of Clouds?
Following the Swan Flock of Clouds (1957) was directed by Pāvels Armands and stars Valdemārs Zandbergs, Vija Artmane, Jānis Kubilis.