Red Code Blue

Sometimes justice needs extraordinary means. When the ordinary – the institutional – levers of justice no longer work, new ones must be pulled. This is what I’ve always thought Greta Thunberg means when she says, “If the emissions have to stop, then we have to stop the emissions”. you can almost hear under her rebellious words coming fro the mouth of Romāns Skulte (Raitis Stūrmanis): “if they won’t stop them, then we will”. This still green young police officer in early post-Soviet Riga, learns this same lesson as he navigates his corrupt department in Red Code Blue, an epic crime saga about crime and justice, right and wrong.

The early years of independence were as chaotic as they were exciting for many former Soviet countries. The rapid changes and new vacuums of power created a recipe for corruption and lawlessness. Freedom and pandemonium often collided. It was the “Wild West of the Eastern flank,” as producer Sintija Andersone notes. This is the world Red Code Blue drops Romāns into. Bribery, excessive force, forged documents, and planted evidence are the precinct’s default setting. The cops here are so corrupt that they seem to find new ways to be corrupt.

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