The Latvian film "Return of Sergeant Lapins" (Seržanta Lapiņa atgriešanās) will be shown on November 5 and 7, 2011 as part of the 2011 European Union film showcase at the
AFI Silver Theater
8633 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Tel: 301-495-6720
Showtimes: 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 5, 2011 and 4:15 p.m. on Monday, November 7, 2011.
The 2010 film in Latvian with English-language subtitles is 80 minutes long.
Released from the sanitarium after a tour of duty in Afghanistan, Sergeant Krists Lapins moves to a run-down apartment in Riga looking to continue his alternative therapy. But his high hopes for a new and rehabilitated life are quickly destroyed one night when he receives an unexpected visitor. Soon enough he finds a startled blonde screaming in his bathroom, a wannabe private detective on his tail and a bankrupt millionaire violently accusing him of having an affair with his wife. This rich dramedy of errors wittily portrays modern Latvian society in an absurd light.