The Informant

Name: The Informant
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2026-10-21

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10/21/2026

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Documentary

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Eighty-two-year-old Juris Kalniņš has found his name in the archives of the Committee for State Security of the Latvian SSR, where he is identified as an informant. Both during the Soviet era and today, he remains an uncompromising free thinker who has devoted most of his life to photographing people and documenting the spirit of the times. With the camera now turned towards Juris, he is ready to delve into his past to understand how his name could have ended up on a KGB file. What makes a person an informant – a piece of paper, mere suspicion, the opinions of others, or one’s own actions?

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Latvian

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An 82-year-old photographer confronts archival evidence that he was listed as a KGB informant, using his own lens to investigate how his name ended up in the machinery of state surveillance. It is a profound meditation on complicity, suspicion, and the elusive nature of truth under totalitarian systems.