Film

The Ring of Fire

2021 · 1h 9m · Documentary

New performers have recently moved into the 130-year-old building of the Riga Circus. Having built a stage in the stables, actors Ance, Āris, Klāvs, Reinis and the other members of the theatre company Kvadrifrons are reinvigorating and preserving the tradition of live art in the circus. The name of the group is an acronym in Latvian that conveys their ethos: they are an organisation that can chill with their friends, have bursts of amazing creativity, and whose members are far from unintelligent. And all the while, the strong smell of elephants wafts through the building. Here and there, the life of the previous inhabitants makes itself known. Soon shamanistic rituals alternate with clowning around, fortune-telling with illusion juggling, stagecraft with personal choices. Then suddenly, out of Nothing… emerges Theatre.

Ance Strazda

Self

Āris Matesovičs

Self

Klāvs Mellis

Self

Reinis Boters

Self

Vyacheslav Polunin

Self

• Signe BirkovaDirector · Writer
• Uldis CekulisProducer
• Dāvids SmiltiņšDirector of Photography
• Andris GrantsEditor

RING OF FIRE [trailer] / UGUNS APLIS

Release date

October 16, 2021

Status

Released

Original language

Latvian

Runtime

1h 9m

Genres

Documentary