Girts Jakovlevs

Unfollow Me (2022)

Ieva has been an obedient granddaughter for years – choosing a safe career in a bank as her grandmother wanted. Her mother left the family years ago when she had to look for work abroad. That has made ties between Ieva and her grandmother especially tigh ...

Nearby (2019)

By chance, Louise and Kaspars meet on a trip to celebrate Midsummer's Eve. She's running away from annoying neighbours and general sense of pointlessness; he's running away from a failing marriage. They're both young, talented, and lost; they both want to ...

The Man Who Saved the World (2014)

A documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. ...

Then It's Hi! Hi! Hee! (2014)

The elderly nursing home residents for years feel worthless and troublesome. But then a crazy idea strikes them - to waive their pensions and enroll in the army as volunteers thus saving the country from financial crisis and spending excitingly the last ye ...

Nazis and Blondes (2008)

Veteran actors from the 3 Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - gather at a castle in Latvia to receive awards for their roles as Nazi villains in propagandist Soviet war films. They reminisce about the films that made them famous throughout t ...

Depression (1991)

A crime story which take action in Riga Sea Port. ...

In A Loop (1990)

Distraction for the Soul (1990)

Based on the novel by same name by Vladimir Makanin. A cabinetmaker falls in love with a poetess who is courted by a university professor. The cabinetmaker has a wife and two high school sons. He is confronted with a difficult choice between family and be ...

Race of the Century (1986)

Russian film transplanting the tragic tale of Donald Crowhurst into then-contemporary anti-capitalist thought. ...

It's Easy to Fall Into an Overgrown Ditch (1986)

Latvia, 1980s. While striving for achievements in the Soviet kolhoz competition, people have forgotten to take care of their surroundings and their loved ones. The Latvian countryside is overwhelmed by alcoholism, and the chairman of the kolhoz is keeping ...

Double Trap (1986)

A police is trying to fight the criminal organization responsible for the illegal export of arts abroad. He pretends to be a criminal to enter and destroy their gang. ...

The Last Indulgence (1985)

A story about a young girl Olga and her struggles with the Soviet marketing system. ...

Victory (1985)

30 years after the end of World War II, a Soviet and an American journalist meet again for realizing post war paths of their countries. ...

State Border: Vol. 4. Red Sand (1984)

The head of the border detachment Gamayun arrives in Turkestan to destroy the last large formation of the Basmachi - the gang of Mumin Bek. ...

Flight Over the Atlantic (1984)

Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean. ...

When The Brakes Won't Hold (1984)

The police leadership is concerned about the increase in car thefts. The investigation of the thefts is entrusted to police captain Siliņš. Once, his fiancée and colleague Aija Kalniņa almost catches up with the criminals in her service car after a cha ...

The Weather in August (1983)

A coming-of-age drama about a thirteen-year old boy Ilmārs, who suddenly gets entangled in his parents' relationship crisis as well as experiences his own first romantic feelings, too. ...

За синими ночами (1983)

Three Days of Reflection (1982)

Head of the CID and his colleagues are investigating a serious crime but the main witnesses are of no help. ...

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 ...

The Private Life of Santa Claus (1982)

It's a story about actor who, in in addition to his day job at the theater, is earning an extra money playing Sant Claus in kindergartens during the Xmas period. ...

Синдикат-2 (1981)

To Remember or to Forget (1981)

Lucia di Lammermoor (1980)

Lovers Edgar and Lucia dream of happiness, but Lucia's brother Henry is preparing her marriage to another man. He forces his sister to sign a marriage contract and enter into an open fight with Edgar. ...

Mainai (1979)

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov. ...

Mainai (1979)

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov. ...

Front Beyond the Front Line (1978)

A second episode in the trilogy about the partisans fighting against the Nazis during the WWII on the territory of Russia. Film is set in the winter of 1943-1944. Major Mlynsky is the commander of the partisan group, that is fighting behind the Nazi's fron ...

Viesnīca Tanatos (1977)

In the Shadow of a Sword (1976)

In a Claws of a Black Cancer (1976)

The action takes place in Kurzeme in the 17th century. The Duke of Courland, the King of Poland and the German barons want power over the Latvian people. Farmers are the biggest victims of this power struggle. ...

Lake Sonata (1976)

Doctor Rūdolfs spends time at his country cottage, and there he meets teacher Laura - a mother of two children whose husband is in prison. Rūdolfs rescues Laura's daughter, Zaiga, who is sick, befriends her son, Maris, and falls in love with Laura, but s ...

Death Under Sail (1976)

Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his heart, all six fall under suspicion. ...

Attack On The Secret Police (1976)

First Summer (1974)

Gajtis is seventeen and maybe, just maybe, this summer will bring him a first love... ...

First Summer (1974)

Dunduriņš (1974)

Armīns, a carefree and self-centered young man, suddenly finds his life turned upside down when he becomes responsible for seven-year-old Zigis after the boy's parents die in a tragic accident. ...

Blow, Wind! (1973)

Based on a stage play of the same name by the one of the biggest names in the history of Latvian literature Rainis, "Put, vejini" tells a story of an unconventional love that blossoms between the handsome, wealthy and impetuous merchant Uldis and the timid ...

Peterss (1973)

The film is dedicated to Dzerzhinsky's closest associate, the revolutionary Yakov Peters. The film tells about the events related to the uprising of the Socialist Revolutionaries in Moscow in 1918 and the activities of Boris Savinkov's underground. ...

In the Shadow of Death (1972)

A group of men go under-ice fishing, but find themselves trapped on a piece of ice, that has broken off. As they are drifting through the sea, the tension between them rises. ...

Farewell to Sankt Petersburg (1971)

A story about love between famous composer Johann Strauss and Russian beauty Olga. ...

The City Under the Limes (1971)

Uzbērums (1970)

Captain Enrico's Watch (1967)

A young boy finds a watch with an engraving in Spanish saying that the watch belongs to Captain Enrico, and adventures begin... ...

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. ...