Degošais (2016)

55min | Documentary | May 4, 2016 | Released

In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a public square in Riga, Latvia protesting against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was stopped and eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital for two years. Thanks to international pressure from the mathematical community in 1972 he was allowed to emigrate to Israel.

Director: Jānis Putniņš

Producer: Kaspars Rolšteins Elīna Rode

Writer(s): Pauls Bankovskis Jānis Putniņš

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