Janis Paukstello

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 ...

The Only Picture (2009)

Historical reenactment of preparation in Nov. 17 and proclamation of independence of Latvia in Nov. 18, 1918 and in epicenter is only taken photograph of this historical moment. ...

Maximum Headroom (2005)

Members of a class of the 1980s hold an annual gathering. All together spend one night remembering the passions and hopes of youth and realising what has been achieved or missed. ...

Waterbomb for the Fat Tomcat (2004)

The parents have gone away, so the two sisters - Marta and Linda - need someone to take care of them. Their dictatorial spinster aunt Una, who desperately wants to get married, arrives to take on this job. Marta really wants a puppy, but her plan is ruined ...

Leaving by the way (2001)

A tale about a nine-year old boy's relationship with the world around him, shot in one of Latvia's poorest and most beautiful regions - Latgale ...

The Mills of Fate (1997)

A love triangle - a terminally ill university teacher, a blind girl and a young bard. In the background of it all - the wild arrival of the capitalism, political conflicts, city life and the beautiful nature of Latvia. In the end love will conquer everythi ...

Christmas Huddle (1993)

The story of Cīrulīši - a tight-knit family down on their luck, and their trials and tribulations during the Christmas season. ...

Secrets of the De Granshan Family (1993)

A story of love, jealousy and betrayal. But always, even under fatal circumstances, nobility will find its way to the light. Gertrude, a former governess, marries the count and cheats on him. She has long been in love with the count's business manager and ...

The Child of Man (1992)

A six-year-old boy plots to stop his "sweetheart", a grown-up woman in his pre-World War II Latvian village, from marrying. ...

The Heiress of Werewolves (1991)

Latvia. The end of the 19th century. In a corner of a parish on the shore of a lake, two families live side by side. The Dievlodziņi and the Vilkači. With a long-standing hatred in their relations. True, the manifestations of hatred are felt only in the ...

Apbraucamais ceļš (1987)

A group of people get cut off from the rest of the world during a snowstorm. ...

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 ...

A Shot In The Forest (1984)

When a journalist from Riga arrives in a rural forest district to investigate a letter from former forester Čukurs warning about the destruction of local woodlands, forest ranger Liepsargs offers him a place to stay. As they look into the situation, Lieps ...

Soloist Needed (1984)

Latvian friends are helping to Estonian rock group to participate in the music competition. ...

Strange Passions (1983)

It is the post-war era on the Latvian border, and the Lithuanian girl Maryte has located her relative, Antanas. Having been a farmhand on a rich farm as well as the lover of the owner's wife, upon his return from the war Antanas hopes to gain as much as he ...

Colonel Shaligin's Waiting (1982)

Summer 1944, Belarus. A group of Soviet soldiers was tasked with urgently delivering our scout from the German rear across the front line. Of the three attendants, not everyone was able to stay alive and complete the task. ...

Forgotten Things (1982)

Laikmetu griežos (1981)

A film based on novels by Latvian writer Andrejs Upīts tells a story about Latvian peasants around the 16th/17th century when they were under the role of several other countries. ...

Trīs minūšu lidojums (1980)

The life journey of Justīne, a country girl, through the years of World War II to the position of chairwoman of a collective farm. ...

Wait for the «John Grafton» (1979)

At the beginning of the summer of 1905, representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Krasilnikov and Elkonen turned to Captain Zhanis Trautman, a Latvian political emigrant living on the outskirts of London, with a proposal to lead a steamer with a ...

Unfinnished Dinner (1979)

In one of the prestigious restaurants during banquet speech a large company's director Palmgren is killed in front of dozen guests . Case is lead by Criminal Investigation Officer Pierre Monson with his assistants. Suspect can be easily intercepted if only ...

The Grand New Year's Night (1978)

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. ...

My Frivolous Friend (1975)

Arvīds Lasmanis can't hold any job for long because he is not ready to tolerate deceit and slapdash work. He still has to feed his family, by chance he finds a well-paid job as a gravedigger. A friend helps Arvīds to find a place in a construction team, ...

Keys of the City (1973)

Austra arrives to a small Latvian town to work for a state institution and faces disinterest and carelessness from her colleagues. Her other troubles include a difficult relationship with her daughter and a sudden falling in love. ...