Against the Current

A film about a unique personality with an unbreakable spirit Gunrs Astra. He can be considered as Latvian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn or Václav Havel. Twenty years he spent in Soviet prisons because of anti-government thinking. In a 1983 trial by the Latvian SSR, Astra said, I believe this time will fade like an evil nightmare. The fate of Gunrs Astra himself was tragic. Like Alexei Navalny in Russia, Astra was poisoned with tea on a train to Saint Petersburg. A week later, Gunrs Astra died. Astras death became a symbol of light on the long road to the restoration of Latvias independence.