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Eliyahu Rips: The Burning

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In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a public square in Riga, Latvia protesting against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was stopped and eventually sent to a psychiatric…

DirectorJānis Putniņš
WritersJānis Putniņš·Pauls Bankovskis
ProducersKaspars Rolšteins·Elīna Rode

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