Crimson Silence

DCP / Color / 10’
Latvian with Turkish and English Subtitles
Latvia, 2026

Director: Sergios DeLaurentis
Screenplay: Sergios DeLaurentis
Cinematography: Edgar Punculis
Editing: Sergios DeLaurentis
Cast: Nika Romanova, Dmitry Afinogenov, Sergios DeLaurentis, Denis Cherekov
Producer: Sergios DeLaurentis
Production: Syntropy Pictures

Synopsis

Bound by shared trauma, four young friends set out toward a reckoning they can no longer avoid, and each faces the inevitable in their own way. Sergios DeLaurentis brings into the present Leonid Andreyev’s The Seven Who Were Hanged (1908), one of Russian literature’s most powerful texts against capital punishment. Andreyev’s gaze — turned less toward the sentence itself than toward the inner life of those who await it — is rebuilt here through the shared wound of a group of friends.

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