Romualds Ancans

Lonely Island (2012)

Five stories and many more lives that are affected, they flow by each other and sometimes intersect. In one way or other we talk about emotional scars that each of us carries around. Events take place in a space of a few days as our heroes try to cope wi ...

Rudolf's Gold (2010)

The dawn of the XX century promised Latvians a prosperous and happy future. The nation's self-esteem had awakened, and farmers were increasingly able to rise above even the estate stewards. Rudups, old soldier of the Kaiser and, with his wealth and pride, ...

Defenders of Riga (2007)

The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them i ...

Roses of Autumn (2004)

The film is about a middle-aged couple experiencing a midlife crisis. The husband and wife are tired of life together and start to forget the love they once shared in their youth. ...

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 ...

The Dogs of Riga (1995)

A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to ...

Duplets (1992)

Ecological criminal intrigue during the international billiard tournament in Riga. ...

Spider (1992)

A young woman agrees to model for an artist as the Virgin Mary. His strange influence triggers her repressed sexual urges, causing her to have delusions and nightmares about spiders and other grotesque imagery. ...

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. ...

On the White Van's Trail (1992)

Three friends dream of purchasing St. Bernard puppies. But obstacles arise along their path, which require resourcefulness and ingenuity to overcome... ...

A Dog Who Could Sing (1991)

Many adventures befell a beautiful dog named Michael. He was stolen and sold many times, he lived with both kind and cruel owners, and even performed in the circus arena. And so, during his difficult wanderings, Michael falls into the hands of a lonely sai ...

The Zitar Family (1990)

The epic film is based on the motifs of Vilis Lācis' novel "The Zītari Family". The tragedy of the Zītari family is a model of Latvian national history. With the beginning of World War I, the patriarchal way of life of Captain Andrejs and his wife Alv� ...

Perfect Crime (1990)

The manufacturer lance Gerero on the basis of irrefutable evidence accused of killing a girl. ...

Carmen Horrendum (1989)

At the center of it is the fate of young women in the war and in the harsh post-war times, when witch-hunting of "enemies of the people" was a common occurrence. The brutal war is mutilating both the girls' bodies and their souls. Location: military hospi ...

Cargo 300 (1989)

Afghanistan. 1986. From the border towards Kabul on a mountain road moving column of Soviet military armored vehicles. From the air it is covered by combat helicopters. The way of the column lies through the only bridge in these parts. This is well aware o ...

Road to Hell (1988)

Police detectives are investigating a pharmaceutical institute for possible drugs manufacturing and distribution. ...

Special Forces Squad (1987)

Carousel on the Market Square (1987)

A tragic accident on the road - a woman dies under the wheels of a car. Her three daughters remain orphans. The main character, a former front-line soldier who was driving, although it was not his fault that he hit the car, feels responsible for the fate o ...

My Friend Socrates (1984)

A story about ten years old Raymond who wants to learn how to drive a car. ...

The Door That's Open To You (1984)

The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (1983)

Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the nobility in England was overwhelmingly Norman. It follows the Saxon protagonist, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who is out of favor with his father for his allegiance to the Norm ...

Incident at Map-Grid 36-80 (1982)

Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown. ...

My Family (1982)

After his family was introduced on a national TV as a "perfect family", the son Robert has a hard time confronting all the lies related to this accidental fame. ...

A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer's Eve (1982)

When old auntie Mirta succeeds in a lottery and wins a car which she cannot use herself, all sorts of family members suddenly appear by her side, hoping to get the car after their auntie's death. Until then, they had never helped Mirta, it was only her nei ...

Born by the Storm (1981)

Ukraine, 1918. Underground worker Sigismund Raevsky organizes a Komsomol cell and gathers young people to fight against the German invaders... ...

Brothers Rico (1980)

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 ...

Your Son (1978)

A Boy (1977)

Latvia, late 19th century. Farm-hand boy Jancis lives on a homestead with his mother, grandfather and grandmother. His world does not reach beyond the horizon, and life progresses according to the seasonal cycle – from winter through spring, summer and a ...

Under the Upturned Moon (1976)

A fishing vessel has been at sea in the Atlantic for six months when tragedy strikes its crew. Captain Arvīds receives devastating news that his young daughter has died after surgery, while young sailor Juris, on his first voyage to earn money for a car, ...

First Summer (1974)

Gajtis is seventeen and maybe, just maybe, this summer will bring him a first love... ...