NORD EXPRESS

“Nord Express” is a documentary in the tone of a detective film about the construction of a high –
speed railway line that started 30 years ago with a dream to connect Baltic States to rest of the
Europe.
Two self-proclaimed investigators – film’s director Kārlis Lesiņš and journalist Inese Liepiņa go on the
road to find out why 6 years before the intended launch of the railway line the construction has not
even started yet and what happened to lead to a situation that one of the biggest infrastructure
objects in Europe might fail.
Kārlis and Inese come into the possession of classified documents indicating that the Rail Baltica
project is plagued by countless problems. As they investigate, they uncover more and more shocking
facts regarding political power struggles, internal schemes and conflicts, corruption, possible Russian
intelligence activity, Chinese economic interests, international security risks and negligence.
Will a project that could become a symbol for the integration of the entire European Union turn into
the biggest failure in the history of this alliance? Or will the greed and carelessness be defeated by a
common effort to reach the noble goal.