Valiant

Feature documentary on the antics of North American Latvian youth in the 1980s during the last years of the Cold War from chaining themselves to the Russian Embassy to organizing an entire cruise ship treading the Soviet border in the Baltic Sea generating headlines when few could even find Latvia on a map The main hero is Juris Bļodnieks old Chrysler Valiant Slant Six that has been in storage for 25 years painted with antiSoviet slogans such as Nyet nyet Soviet and Gorbachev to hell A generation of US Latvians remembers the car appearing in demonstrations across North America Day to day while driving around his home state of New Jersey Juris used the car to further the seemingly hopeless task to free an illegally occupied Latvia