LV

2015

68 min

Finished

My Father the Banker

Mans tēvs baņķieris

Directing: Ieva Ozolina

Synopsis

Self-made banker Boriss Osipovs achieves quick success immediately after the collapse of the USSR, but flees Latvia to avoid arrest for illegal operations. Fifteen years later, his family receives a photograph from Interpol of an elderly gentleman with the same name who resides in a Malaysian mental asylum. Could it be him? Despite the reservations of her family, his daughter, documentary director Ieva Ozolina starts an investigation to find out the truth about the man in the photograph. My Father the Banker is an emotional story about a man who loses himself in times of change... and the daughter who hopes to find him.

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