My Favorite War

The film is animation and documentary at once. The person telling it is Ilze Burkovska. She is describing her own childhood. The place is Latvia under Soviet rule. The years are the seventies and eighties. As a girl she was obsessed with stories of the Second World War. Everything she read and heard was about the war. All of it came in the official framing of the time. In time she learns about her family’s past. There are people in it who were persecuted. The Cold War sits over every day, and the propaganda at school is part of the account. The years pass and perestroika arrives. Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen made the eighty two minute film, a Latvian and Norwegian production finished in 2020.