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Ivars Kalnins, Jekabs Reinis, Edgars Ozolins, and Mantas Zemleckas in The Gates of Riga (2022)

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The Gates of Riga

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  • Living in his millionaire father's shadow, a young businessman Erikas cures depression by taking on a dangerous path becoming a mastermind dealer of drugs.Along the way, he is not only avoiding the law and criminals.
  • Through this crime drama, we follow Erikas and his new friends navigating between love and death, fighting gangs in the Baltics, searching for purpose in modern life and questioning their values. It's a story about choices and ambitions. The characters are constantly asking themselves - "What is Your dream? And how far can I go to achieve it?"

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  • Living in his millionaire father's shadow, a young businessman Erikas cures depression by taking on a dangerous path to becoming a mastermind dealer of drugs. Along the way, he is not only avoiding the law, Erikas needs to steer between Latvian and Russian gang wars

    Even though ERIKAS is unbeatable salesman at his father's canned products company, at the meeting with clients in Riga, he is scorned by his father LIUDVIKAS. Like usual, Erikas goes to the club where he uses drugs to escape from his problems. Here he meets the owners of an extravagant club, who appear to represent the biggest gang in Latvia - the BALODIS FAMILY. And they need such a salesman as Erikas At first reluctant, Erikas eventually finds a reason to go on the path of crime - he wants to overcome the shadow of Liudvikas and build more successful and bigger business. Through the life of crime in Balodis family business, Erikas gets accompanied by a young and cheerful dad JANIS, who dreams of leaving the crime business and starting a normal life. Everything changes when Erikas and Janis are ambushed by Russian mob affiliate in Riga - VIKTOR. To save his and Janis' life, Erikas makes presuming an impossible deal to work for Viktor, placing himself in the middle of the battlefield between two major gangs. However, Erikas is noticed by a charming woman MIA. She is a permissive daughter of an old but powerful drug lord from Oceania - JAMES GILBERT WHITE. Delivering his request, 1 tone of cocaine to Riga, becomes the only option for Erikas to survive.

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