Caught between countries, languages,and artistic forms, Raimonds Staprāns embodies a life shaped by history. In America, he is recognized as a painter; in Latvia, as a playwright rooted in the human stories of a turbulent century.

Through The Red Barn, filmmaker Pēteris Krilovs transforms one of Staprāns’ defining works into a cinematic space where memory, identity, and imagination converge, blurring the line between creation and lived experience.

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