White Bells
1961, LV. Directed by Ivars Kraulītis.
A little girl wanders all alone in the morning, through a bustling city, looking for the white bells she noticed in the window of a florist's shop. This film heralded the birth of a new film language in Latvian cinema. It received awards at the San Francisco and Oberhausen festivals. and was included on the list of the “world’s 100 best short films” by the film critics at the 1995 Clermont-Ferrand film festival.. All three of the film’s authors together with their peers became the creators of the legendary Riga School of Poetic Documentary.
- Runtime
- 0h 24m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- LV
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- Released
- 3 January 1961
- Original title
- Baltie zvani
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Herz Frank
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White Bells isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 3 January 1961. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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If you liked White Bells, try As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Directed by John Ford, Ex Libris: The New York Public Library.
Who directed White Bells?
White Bells (1961) was directed by Ivars Kraulītis and stars Ilze Zariņa.