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Stories Set in Riga
Riga is Latvia's capital, famous for art-nouveau facades and a medieval old town. It films Baltic noir better than anyone, and Sweden's most famous detective came here to investigate. The Dogs of Riga sniffed around. Open Riga on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 1 book and 3 movies set in Riga.
The Dogs of Riga
Second in the Kurt Wallander series.Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive…
Blue Blood
Diana a woman in her early 40s struggles to end an abusive relationship with her husband while also trying to protect the only possession their family have left – an apartment in a luxurious part of the city. As the…
December
In December of 1925 renowned American dancer Isadora Duncan arrives at the Soviet-Latvian border where she makes arrangements for her lover Yesenin to flee from the USSR. All he has to do is get on the train to Riga.…
In The Land That Sings
Looking for solutions of an efficient management and creation significant ideas to flourish Latvian culture and education leaders of the Riga Latvian Society decide to hold the 1st Latvian Singing Festival back in 1873.…
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