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Jānis Putniņš

Jānis Putniņš

Studied at the German Language Department of the University of Latvia, Faculty of Foreign Languages. Holds a Bachelor's degree in Film Directing from the Massachusetts College of Art, a Master's degree in Media Studies / English from the State University of New York.

He has been director of several Latvian film studios and Latvian National Opera. He was the creative director of ADELL Saatchi & Saatchi.

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Movies Made By Jānis Putniņš (12)

Zeno's Paradox (2022)

Alex is a perfectly ordinary young man whose life changes radically after receiving a strange message and meeting several strange characters who seem to have stepped out of the world of cinema. Under the influence of Zenon's paradox, Alex begins to see the ...

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Fatālists un viņa saimnieks (2021)

How did they meet? ... By chance, like all of us. What are their names? ... I would ask - what's your part? Where are they going? ... does anyone know where they are going? What did they say to each other? The host said nothing, but Jacques said that his C ...

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Tempest (2021)

In spite of bad omen about the upcoming storm, the fisherman sets out to the sea and doesn't return. The wife of the fisherman embarks on a journey to find the storm whisperer who could calm down the sea and return the fisherman home. ...

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Adoptee '88 (2019)

Born in 1988, Kristaps finally wants to find out who is his real father. Family women do not tell if it is Guntis or Gvido. Kristaps goes to search for his father, acting as the boom operator of the documentary. ...

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He Was Called Chaos Berzins (2018)

Harry Berzins is abducted by aliens. Traumatic experience gained is on a foreign planet, where the gray race rules and makes Berzins feel excluded. The only creature he believes is the odd Ufologist Vilma Kavace. While Vilma uses Berzins as an alien attrac ...

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Only Trains Remember That (2016)

Trains and railroad tracks are the unifying elements in this found footage film made out of fragments from feature films produced in Latvia from 1958 to 1989. It's a cinematic journey into the world of dreams, filled with memories, desires, and the incessa ...

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Eliyahu Rips: The Burning (2016)

In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a public square in Riga, Latvia protesting against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was stopped and eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital for two ...

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Pacelšanās (2016)

A brutal force interrupts the cowboy's journey to the city. In a state of unconsciousness, his consciousness is confronted with his subconscious, and the cowboy undergoes a painful ritual of self-purification. ...

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I Shall Return as a Flaming Rose (2014)

Lonely, 45 year-old worker Kasandra has just received a lethal diagnosis from her doctor. She goes to her high school reunion, confused, and is faced with phantasmagorical events that completely shatter her daily routine. Kasandra flees from the city. In t ...

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Vogelfrei (2007)

Four directors capture simple, yet quintessential experiences of a single individual in different periods of his life - childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. ...

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Hide-and-seek (2001)

A young woman, Regina, has been killed in her apartment. Investigator Anderson holds Regina's husband as a suspect for a murder because he is unable to remember his location at the time of the fateful event. Gradually, Anderson is convinced that Oto has no ...

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Investigation of Related Events (1993)

The movie shows a young man's life dramatically changed after his friend is murdered. It is ironic - if to look with today's eyes - and nostalgia evoking portrait of marginal society and environment in the early 1990s with allusions to the western cinema - ...

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Movies Starring Jānis Putniņš (6)

Lotus (2025)

Alice von Trota returns to her father's manor in Latvia in 1919 to sell it and start a new life. She meets the hostile resistance of the local workers and discovers she has been lured into a carefully tailored trap set by a demonic lawyer, a decadent under ...

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Zeno's Paradox (2022)

Alex is a perfectly ordinary young man whose life changes radically after receiving a strange message and meeting several strange characters who seem to have stepped out of the world of cinema. Under the influence of Zenon's paradox, Alex begins to see the ...

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The Year Before the War (2021)

Stylized as silent cinema, the film connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of a new world. This mysterious adventurer, who was known as Peter the Lett, gets involved in a tragicomic and ...

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Touch of Dzenis (2017)

A female ninja tries to break ties with her spiritual teacher. The seemingly unexpected and humiliating death of her teacher is only the beginning of this process; it is a decisive step in her life. The action takes place in a specific environment, and the ...

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Hide-and-seek (2001)

A young woman, Regina, has been killed in her apartment. Investigator Anderson holds Regina's husband as a suspect for a murder because he is unable to remember his location at the time of the fateful event. Gradually, Anderson is convinced that Oto has no ...

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Investigation of Related Events (1993)

The movie shows a young man's life dramatically changed after his friend is murdered. It is ironic - if to look with today's eyes - and nostalgia evoking portrait of marginal society and environment in the early 1990s with allusions to the western cinema - ...

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