A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer's Eve

A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer's Eve
Directed byJānis Streičs
Written byMāra Svīre
StarringLilita Bērziņa
Olga Dreģe
Ēvalds Valters
Uldis Dumpis
Diāna Zande
CinematographyHarijs Kukels
Edited byMargarita Surdeko
Music byRaimonds Pauls
Distributed byRiga Film Studio
Release date
  • 1981 (1981)
Running time
83 min
CountryLatvian Soviet Socialist Republic
LanguagesLatvian, Russian

A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer's Eve (Latvian: Limuzīns Jāņu nakts krāsā, Russian: Лимузин цвета белой ночи, romanizedLymuzyn tsveta beloy nochy) is a 1981 Soviet-Latvian comedy-drama film directed by Jānis Streičs. Movie was produced by Riga Film Studio. The film was awarded the Latvian National Film Prize Lielais Kristaps in 1981. The film is part of Latvian Culture and was voted the all-time best Latvian film. It is shown every year on TV before the summer solstice festival of Jāņi, a national holiday in Latvia. The movie is about the struggle of two related families for their eighty-year-old aunt's inheritance through comic and romantic events.