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200120 minPGdocumentary

Art History Entrepreneurship

Poco a poco

200120 minPGdocumentary

A young harp player in Latvia faces a difficult decision between a career in music and a more secure financial path.

Art History Entrepreneurship

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A young harp player in Latvia faces a difficult decision between a career in music and a more secure financial path.

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Ināra Kolmane

Ināra Kolmanedirector

Ināra Kolmane

Ināra Kolmanewriter

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To be a harp player or a proffesional guard-for-hire? A young musician, at the very beginnig of his professional career. As many creative-minded young people in Latvia, he faces a dilemma: to devote his life to art or to change his profession and live a financially more guaranteed life. Young harp-player’s story and his creative road in the pragmatic world of today.

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