Eight Stars

This film tells about the most striking and tragic phenomenon during the development of selfawareness of the Latvian nation the Latvian Riflemen The first Daugavgrīva regiment the second Riga third Kurland fifth Semigallian sixth Tukums seventh Bauska and eighth Valmiera regiments of Latvian Riflemen this was Latvia before its statehood The film is a historically chronological study beginning with the formation of the Riflemen battalions and their first battles until the end of the Civil War in Russia when a large part of the Riflemen returned home to the recently established state of Latvia This is a story about common people challenged by the Big Epoch that determined their lives