Screenwriters: Teodora Markova & Stanislavs Tokalovs
Global Breakout Deadline
Global Breakouts, Deadline’s strand in which, each fortnight, we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories.
Soviet Jeans, the buzziest show to come out of Latvia this decade. The series — part-love story, part absurdist comedy — follows a young rock fan who begins illegally producing American-style jeans after being sent to a mental asylum for political reasons.
The hit series was created by our own Teodora Markova & Stanislavs Tokalovs