Hermanis Vazdiks

Dear Life (1989)

A homage to Krišjānis Barons and his life's work – to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas,thus creating the encyclopaedia of Latvian life, a poetic reflection of the knowledge of life accumulated over the centuries. The film is based on K ...

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. ...

Kara ceļa mantinieki (1973)

Boys from Liv Island (1969)

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

Rock and Splinters (1967)

During World War II three best friends are mobilized into the Waffen-SS Latvian Legion. Years later their fates continue to intertwine, as memories of war loom in back of their minds. ...

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. ...

Following the Swan Flock of Clouds (1957)

The first film in a duology based on the biography of Latvian revolutionary Jānis Fabricius. Mārtiņš Venta, the son of a forest ranger, enrolls in a Riga gymnasium and becomes an underground activist, while his classmate, Dace, a teacher's daughter, is ...

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 ...