Soviet Jeans

Exciting new dramas are coming out of Latvia. Set in an era increasingly torn between official party dogma and Western influence, Soviet Jeans unfolds a romantic yet political story about a regime showing the first cracks in its facade.

Synopsis

Late 1970s. At the height of the USSR’s relentless propaganda against Western culture, a die-hard rock ’n’ roll fan launches a thriving — and illegal — jeans factory inside a Latvian psychiatric hospital.