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Film Fact: Latvia

To celebrate the weird and wonderful Eurovision Song Contest, we present weird and wonderful film facts about this year's finalist countries.

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You score a gig providing four-wheeled monsters for the newest Die Hard adventure, damn straight you're gonna promote the hell out of your involvement! Problem is Bruce Willis and 20th Century Fox probably aren't going to OK a photo of John McClane for your flyers very cheaply. The solution? If you are the marketing gurus at Dartz, Latvia's leading supplier of armoured vehicles, just cartoon-up ol' Bruno against a backdrop of fat policemen, a ferris wheel, a statue of Lenin and a fiery ball in the sky from which The Hand of God – THE HAND OF GOD!! – appears to be emerging. If only the movie had been so entertaining.


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