Harijs Avens

Attack On The Secret Police (1976)

First Summer (1974)

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. ...

Ceplis (1972)

Latvia in the 1920s. The enterprising Edgars Ceplis establishes a company to produce bricks from Latvian clay for export. Many are involved in his project, hoping for the huge profits the venture promises. Ceplis soon becomes infatuated with his office typ ...

Boys from Liv Island (1969)

A group of young Latvian boys enroll to a pioneers movement during the first years after WWII. ...

The Times of the Surveyors (1968)

Land surveyors arrive in two parishes to measure and redistribute manor land. The rivalry between both feoffees for land and woman begins. ...

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... ...

War Under the Roofs (1967)

Diena bez vakara (1963)

The directing debut of the acclaimed Latvian cinematographer Māris Rudzītis. ...

Echo (1960)

Sword and Rose (1959)

Greve hatred of the new world is growing stronger. But explosives are stored under the rocks of Old Riga. Event coincidences becomes too threatening. ...

Latviešu strēlnieka stāsts (1958)

A story of a Latvian rifleman between two revolutions. ...

Rita (1958)

The last summer of World War II in a Latvian fishing village. Ten-year-old Rita risks her life to care for and provide everything necessary for four prisoners of war rescued by fishermen—a Frenchman, a Russian, and two Latvians—who are hidden in the at ...

The Fisherman's Son (1957)

The 1930s. Young fisherman Oskars Klava dreams of new nets to help him gain independence from the collector Garoza but he lacks the trust of old fishermen. ...

After The Storm (1956)

Mājup ar uzvaru (1948)

The Fisherman's Son (1939)

Oskars lives in a typical sea-side village, but wants to break free of his father's rule and the old ways – he dreams of new, large nets, an ice-cellar, and the fishermen's independence from the fish wholesaler. At first, no one wants to believe in Oskar ...