Juris Plavins

Nocturne of Chopin (1992)

A young pianist and a countryside girl fall in love in a village on a Baltic sea shore just days before the beginning of WWII. ...

Valsis mūža garumā (1990)

Forty years ago, she went with her beloved to his home in Germany. Now she is back in her native land, but as a visitor. The paths to her childhood home, which no longer exists, are overgrown. The paths that lead to the hearts of loved ones are overgrown. ...

Valsis mūža garumā (1990)

Double Trap (1986)

A police is trying to fight the criminal organization responsible for the illegal export of arts abroad. He pretends to be a criminal to enter and destroy their gang. ...

Fronte tēva pagalmā (1984)

The Weather in August (1983)

A coming-of-age drama about a thirteen-year old boy Ilmārs, who suddenly gets entangled in his parents' relationship crisis as well as experiences his own first romantic feelings, too. ...

Long Road in the Dunes (1982)

The action of the film takes place in Latvia and spans the period from 1939 to the early 1970s. The events that occurred in the country had various effects on the fates of the characters. But throughout it all, love guided them — it scattered and gathere ...

Fact (1981)

Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a f ...

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 ...

Gifts over the Phone (1978)

After the train conductor Pētersons receives money transfer from an unknown source, he suspects foul play involving the cargo he's transporting. He decides to do his own investigation into the matter, not realizing that he's putting himself and those arou ...

To Be Unwanted (1977)

Valdemārs 'Voldis' Viters is released after seven years in prison. He is 46 years old and has no family or job. Some of his old friends have abandoned the life of crime, and policeman Leo Aleksandrs, as well as the beautiful taxi driver Irēna, try to per ...

In the Shadow of a Sword (1976)

Sea Gates (1974)

A TV movie. The film features songs by Yu.Vizbor, V.Berkovsky, S.Nikitin. ...

Ilga-Ivolga (1974)

The wounded Russian soldier Fyodor, risking his life, was sheltered on a Latvian farm by his grandfather and granddaughter. Ilga fell in love with him, but the war separated them. Fedor went to the partisans, and Ilga is killed by the Nazis. Only many year ...

Checkmate to the Queen of Diamonds (1973)

A detective and a militia captain are working together investigating a murder. When their job is done, the feelings do not let them say goodbye. ...

Egle rudzu laukā (1972)

Captain Jack (1972)

Captain Jack, this is actually an ordinary girl, she is an informal leader among the boys, loves the sea very much and spends a lot of time on the decommissioned ship Signal. The film tells the amazing story of the Signal team, which during the war saved t ...

In the Shadow of Death (1972)

A group of men go under-ice fishing, but find themselves trapped on a piece of ice, that has broken off. As they are drifting through the sea, the tension between them rises. ...

Boys from Liv Island (1969)

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

When Rain and Wind Hit Against Your Window (1967)

The Second World War has just ended, but national partisans are still hiding in Latvia's forests and fighting against the Soviet regime. Ansis Leinasars, who has been tasked to spark a coup in Latvia, arrives by night from across the sea, but his work is h ...

Strong with Spirit (1967)

The true story of the Soviet intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov, who, behind enemy lines in Ukraine, infiltrated Hitler's headquarters, kidnapped the commander of the punitive troops and executed the imperial adviser. ...

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. ...

Nocturne (1966)

End of the Spanish Civil War. Republicans retreat across the Pyrenees to France. A Latvian soldier, Zorzs, and a French nurse, Iveta, accidentally meet. ...