Herz Frank (17 January 1926- 3 March 2013) was one of the most famous documentary filmmakers of Latvia. At the beginning of 1960he was among the first to establish the so-called Riga poetic documentary school – the Latvian “new wave”. Since then Herz Frank’s filmography includes more than 80 films, many of which have justly been included in the golden funds of Latvian film history. During his life Herz Frank has received Life contribution award in cinema, among which is also the recognition by the Latvian National film festival (2001).
The main characters of the film have made choices, which change their lives forever. A young man Yigal Amir assassinates the Prime Minister of Israel and becomes the most hated prisoner in the country. Larissa, who emigrated from Russia, mother of four div ...
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In 1991, the Moscow director Yevgeny Aryeh, with a handful of emigrants from the USSR, founded the Gesher Theater in Israel, which means "bridge" in Hebrew. Bridge between people. Bridge between cultures. And now between art forms. After all, "Eternal Rehe ...
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On the islet of Procida near Naples, Italy, the Mystery Procession commencing at dawn on Good Friday of each year, has been traditionally conducted by the "Turchini Fraternity" since 1627... The film captures portraits of Procida's inhabitants during the p ...
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An autobiographical work from Herz Frank. Images guide us through the countries in which he worked, interspersed with fragments from his earlier films: births, autopsies, circumcisions, prisoners awaiting execution and other shocking themes. ...
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An ironic reportage about Shakespeare's Juliet who has turned from a symbol of love into a victim of mass culture. The film was shot during a day in the backyard of the Cappelletti house in Verona. ...
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The documentary is dedicated to the painful issues of the Holocaust and the Riga Ghetto. ...
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One family, one band. They seemed to be happy. A movie that investigates why these seemingly optimistic musicians suddenly saw no hope to continue living in USSR and tried to escape it by hijacking a plane. ...
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Filmed largely in close-up, this documentary records a woman giving birth while her husband remains at her side. The camera concentrates on her face throughout labor, briefly revealing the moment of the child's arrival before the newborn is placed in her a ...
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A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his emotional journey through the trial, imprisonment and beyond. ...
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In this ten-minute documentary experiment, director Herz Frank films a group of children watching a puppet show, keeping the camera fixed on their faces in a single continuous shot. The performance itself remains unseen, while the children's shifting expre ...
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A portrait of the prominent Latvian painter Maija Tabaka, showcasing her work process and life of artists from that time. ...
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The life of a 16 yearo-old convict through the Soviet penal system. The "restricted area" is a penal colony and Borstal, a "work camp" for delinquent children and young people. The film shows the contradictions in the notion of corrective education. ...
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Philosophic reportage about work of pathoanatomist. Documentary version of Rembrandt's «Anatomy Lesson». ...
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Reflections on human's relationship with horses throughout the ages and their depiction in art are shown in parallel to the draft horse competition. ...
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A psychological portrait of kolkhos chairman Edgar Kaulin, who saved many Latvian farmers from deportations by the Soviets in the period 1945-53, and with them built up a kolkhos. ...
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In the 1966 the population of the Soviet Union was estimated at 235 million. A group of Latvian filmmakers traveled the length and breadth of the country to create a portrait of the diverse population. ...
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In 1968 Herz Frank made Without Legends (Bez leģendām) at the Kuibishev studios, together with Aloizs Brenčs and Aleksandr Sazhin. The film is based on the memoirs of Hero of Socialist Labor Professor Ivan Vasilyevich Komzin, former head of construction ...
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A poetic film about theatre being played to workers of a factory during their lunchbreak. ...
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Filmmakers of Riga poetic documentary school, Freimanis and Seleckis, were designated as the creative core for this documentary to be shot in honour of the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Latvia. The team was joined by the heavyweight poet Imants Ziedonis a ...
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In the evening newspaper "Rīgas Balss," reports by Hercs Franks often appeared, consisting of eight photographs, one on each page. From these, a narrative was constructed. The first film, "Salty Bread," was conceived through a camera. The photographs defi ...
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A little girl wanders all alone in the morning, through a bustling city, looking for the white bells she noticed in the window of a florist's shop. This film heralded the birth of a new film language in Latvian cinema. It received awards at the San Franci ...
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At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more r ...
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"Like the right and left hand Your soul is close to my soul We are sealed shut, blissfully and warmly, Like the right and left wing…" The life and art of Pavel Kogan and Lyudmila Stanukinas, two famous Leningrad documentary filmmakers, can best be ex ...
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