Screenwriter: Teodora Markova
Beta Film Picks Up ‘Soviet Jeans’
Beta Film has picked up international distribution rights to Latvia’s “Soviet Jeans.” Presented at Berlinale Series Market Selects, the show will premiere at Series Mania in March.
Set in Riga in the late 1970s and based on multiple true stories, it zooms in onto young rock fan Renars (Karlis Arnolds Avots), sent to a mental asylum for political reasons. Undeterred, he starts illegal production of counterfeit U.S. jeans with his inmates, flooding the black market.
The series was co-created and co-written by Teodora Markova, Aamu Milonoff & Andris Keiss. It was produced by Tasse Film.