Jānis Osis

Stranger in the Village (1958)

A man returns to his village after many years away with his new wife in tow. ...

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 (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. ...

History Lesson (1957)

In 1933 Berlin, Bulgarian communist Georgi Dimitrov is caught up in the Reichstag fire trials when Nazis seek to frame communists. Despite orchestrated provocations and mass repression, Dimitrov's defiant courtroom defense exposes the baseless charges, for ...

To a New Shore (1955)

The dramatic fates of the Līdumu, Tauriņu, and Pacepļu families from the 1920s to the 1950s. The conflict between the Līdumu and Tauriņu dynasties as a class struggle, ending with the victory of the Līdumu family. ...

Mikhail Lomonosov (1955)

A biopic about the life of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - Russian polymath, scientist and writer. ...

Rainis (1949)

A biopic of Rainis (born as Jānis Pliekšāns), a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician, whose works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latv ...

Mājup ar uzvaru (1948)