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Rolands Kalnins

Rolands Kalnins

Rolands Kalniņš is a Latvian film director. The last and only Latvian cinema aristocrat. Kalniņš possesses an intelligence of the soul. His films are smart, and the passage of time becomes them; forming new contexts reveals previously unread levels of content and subtext.

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Movies Made By Rolands Kalnins (25)

Nepabeigta saruna par dzīvi, mīlestību un mūziku (2013)

The film focuses on composer Ādolfs Skulte (1909-2000) and his life story as told through his own memories, archival materials, and music. In interviews filmed in the late 1990s, the maestro recounts his life and recalls his childhood, his studies with Pr ...

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Bitter Wine (2007)

Donats is a modern-day Don Juan juggling the various women in his life seemingly without any consequences, until he falls in love with Agnese. Her husband, Ralfs, turns out to be a formidable opponent. ...

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Ardievu, divdesmitais gadsimt! (2006)

A chronicle created from archival materials, which in terms of form continues the path of montage films once begun by Braun. The events in the film take place during the period from the 1905 revolution to the manifestations of Latvia's efforts to regain in ...

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Eternal Faust (1999)

A story about the significance of Goethe's Faust in the development of Latvian literature, language, publishing, culture and theatre. The video highlights the intersection of world cultures and their mutual development, as well as the courage of the peopl ...

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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. ...

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Tapers (1991)

The path of the main character to the tops of creative work is a chain of victories and losses, in which gains and irretrievable losses alternate. ...

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If We Live Through All This (1987)

Revolution of 1905 in Latvia. ...

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The Game Is Taking Place Anyway (1985)

A businessman and a footballer are murdered before an important football match in Prague. Investigation has to be started. ...

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Rocky Road (1983)

Based on the popular novel of the same title by Vilis Lācis. Latvia, the 1930s. Roberts Līviņš, the son of a dockhand, becomes an architect by his own efforts, thanks to arduous work and talent. But in his relationship with Līvija, the daughter of the ...

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Three Days of Reflection (1982)

Head of the CID and his colleagues are investigating a serious crime but the main witnesses are of no help. ...

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Conversation with a Queen (1980)

A cinematic portrait of the actress and performer Vija Armane. ...

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Male Games in the Open Air (1978)

Relations of two sportsmen who often forget that they are not the only ones in the stadium. ...

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Four Springs (1975)

The wonderful power of folk songs and dances that helps to notice the beauty of the world and human relations. ...

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Maritime Climates (1974)

The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power hadn't got worried by the rushes they saw, which lead them to terminate the production. In 1992, Rolands Kalniņš made t ...

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Ceplis (1972)

Latvia in the 1920s. The enterprising Edgars Ceplis establishes a company to produce bricks from Latvian clay for export. Many are involved in his project, hoping for the huge profits the venture promises. Ceplis soon becomes infatuated with his office typ ...

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The Warrior of the Queen (1970)

The hard work plays an important role in the personal growth of a runner. ...

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Tā dejo Latvijā (1969)

The film was made for the World Expo '70 in Osaka (Japan), introducing viewers to Latvian folk dances. ...

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The Times of the Surveyors (1968)

Land surveyors arrive in two parishes to measure and redistribute manor land. The rivalry between both feoffees for land and woman begins. ...

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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. ...

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Four White Shirts (1967)

Cezars Kalnins installs telephones by day and composes pop songs by night. His band has a hard time receiving the permit from Soviet censorship authorities for a public debut. A member of the Culture Committee superficially listens to Cēzars' songs and de ...

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In the Underworld (1963)

A story about children helping the Soviet Army during the war. ...

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Atmaksa (1962)

A film about combating venereal diseases. ...

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Ilze (1959)

A political film based in Latvian countryside in 1947. ...

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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 ...

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Causes and effects (1956)

This screen adaptation of Andrejs Upītis' novella marks the debut in Latvian cinema of two of the first graduates of the Moscow Film Institute - director Varis Krūmiņš and cinematographer Māris Rudzītis. An egg comes out of a shopping bag and breaks ...

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One Hundred Years Older (2022)

What happens in the eyes of a 100-year-old filmmaker? Rolands Kalniņš, one of the great masters of Latvian cinema, sits down to have his photo taken and looks straight in the lens. Kalniņš' life has spanned an authoritarian regime, a world war, long y ...

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Purva bridējs - Uldis Pūcītis (2020)

A TV documentary about Latvian actor Uldis Pūcītis, featuring fragments from many of his films ("Swap Treader", "Four White Shirts" and others), as well as stories by people who knew him - actors and directors, former lovers and classmates. ...

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