Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article contributes to the discussion of sports films in Eastern European cinema. It argues that the sports film is a genre that is often used for national unification, and therefore can offer insights into the national psyche. Filmmakers have employed the ‘Hollywood-like genre entertainment’ of the fictional sports film throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to represent, or establish, foundational myths of a nation. In this article, the film Sapņu komanda: 1935/Dream Team: 1935 (Aigars Grauba 2012) is examined as part of this trend. Dream Team: 1935 is argued to provide a moral fable for the Latvian nation, which struggles to negotiate its national identity after regaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
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