Dzidra Ritenberga

Madwomen: to be a sparrow not a canary (2023)

A housewife confronts situations to which no sane response exists... "Madwomen: To Be a Sparrow Not a Canary" is an experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969. An experimental coll ...

The Coincidence of Circumstance (1988)

If We Live Through All This (1987)

Revolution of 1905 in Latvia. ...

The Door That's Open To You (1984)

Garden With A Ghost (1983)

Long Road in the Dunes (1982)

The action of the film takes place in Latvia and spans the period from 1939 to the early 1970s. The events that occurred in the country had various effects on the fates of the characters. But throughout it all, love guided them — it scattered and gathere ...

To Remember or to Forget (1981)

Be My Mother-in-Law! (1977)

An adventurous love story of a veterinarian from Riga, a cheerful loser Andris. ...

Reflection in the Water (1977)

Based on a story by Janis Lapsa, written by Janis Lapsa and Andris Kolbergs, film is a singular work, filled with human warmth. It is a story about a talented surgeon Markalns, who after a serious personal crisis, returns to his native town in order to sta ...

Keys to Paradise (1976)

Successful work and life of a brave militia captain who does not know much about human psychology. ...

My Frivolous Friend (1975)

Arvīds Lasmanis can't hold any job for long because he is not ready to tolerate deceit and slapdash work. He still has to feed his family, by chance he finds a well-paid job as a gravedigger. A friend helps Arvīds to find a place in a construction team, ...

Dunduriņš (1974)

Kara ceļa mantinieki (1973)

The Large Amber (1972)

A band arrives late at the competition. They try to find the jury and show their performance. ...

Crime and Punishment (1970)

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess. ...

Evgeniy Urbanskiy (1968)

About the Soviet actor of theater and cinema, Honored Artist of the RSFSR - Evgeny Yakovlevich Urbansky recalled Vasily Livanov, Polina Filippovna, Grigory Chukhrai, Grigory Elanchik, Yuli Reisman, Sophia Pavlova, Evgeny Leonov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Nin ...

Spring (1968)

Savely and Lelya are leading a quiet peaceful life in a forest reserve, in a small village with a mineral spring, where Savely brought his seriously ill wife. The seemingly routine life can not hide deep and tender love that came a bit too late... ...

The Skylark Shoots First (1967)

Game Without Rules (1965)

The Second World War is over. The post-war Germany is divided into several responsibility zones. Still many Russian people languish in camps located in the American zone. Though former allies are in no hurry to let them off to the motherland, and even try ...

Under the Same Roof (1963)

Mari has successfully led a collective farm in 1950s and fulfilled all tasks given from the authorities. Nonetheless, things in the collective farm become progressively worse. The Committee of the Communist Party sends its representative Peeter who learns ...

Echo (1960)

Your Happiness (1960)

An inspector is torn between her conviction of there being a need to reconstruct a factory, and a love interest who asks of her not to do that in order for him to further his career. ...

Thunderstorm Over the Fields (1959)

A Soviet propaganda film about the establishment of Bolshevik power in the Ukrainian countryside through the story of a woman's fate. ...

Happiness Must Be Protected (1958)

Returning to his native village at the end of his military service, Victor (Yuri Sarantsev) brought his bride into the house - and soon they got married. Victor works on the collective farm with great enthusiasm, he is appointed a foreman, but the happines ...

Born of the Storm (1958)

German troops leave a small town located on the border of Western Ukraine and Poland. The Pilsudians seize power in the city. Bolshevik, who returned from prison, heads the underground revolutionary committee. ...

After The Storm (1956)

Causes and effects (1956)

This screen adaptation of Andrejs Upītis' novella marks the debut in Latvian cinema of two of the first graduates of the Moscow Film Institute - director Varis Krūmiņš and cinematographer Māris Rudzītis. An egg comes out of a shopping bag and breaks ...

Malva (1956)

The title character, played by Dzidra Ritenberga, is the restless wife of a provincial village fisherman. Unwilling to dedicate herself to her husband, Malwa seeks out love from every man she meets. This results in a romantic triangle that is at once disar ...

Valsis mūža garumā (1990)

Forty years ago, she went with her beloved to his home in Germany. Now she is back in her native land, but as a visitor. The paths to her childhood home, which no longer exists, are overgrown. The paths that lead to the hearts of loved ones are overgrown. ...

Valsis mūža garumā (1990)

A House With No Exit (1988)

An artist and his lover get trapped in their summer house by a gang of convicts. ...

Last Reportage (1986)

Unfamiliar Case (1985)

A young girl is looking for her long lost father while visiting Riga during winter vacations. ...

The Longest Straw (1982)

Post-war Latvia. Francis' gang operates in a small town and the new KGB agent Juris Vilks has been asked to infiltrate his gang and gain his confidence. ...

Trīs minūšu lidojums (1980)

The life journey of Justīne, a country girl, through the years of World War II to the position of chairwoman of a collective farm. ...

Vakara variants (1980)

A 38-year-old teacher Anna in a small town is longing to have a child. The opportunity arises when she meets a cargo driver who travels through her town. He turns out to be married with a child in another town, so Anna doesn't wish to pursue the relationsh ...

This Dangerous Balcony Door (1976)

When Rolands and his friends' amateur movie seen at his 18th birthday party unfolds as a crime testimony, fragile bond between people threatens to break completely. ...