Uldis Dumpis

Grandpa More Dangerous Than a Computer (2017)

Eight-year-old Oskar's holidays start miserably; his parents "swap" the computer for his granddad to protect the child from the dangerous influence of the Internet. ...

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 ...

Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg (2012)

Adam's first wife Lilith is mentioned in the ancient Oriental legends, in Talmud and in the medieval books of Cabala. According to these sources, she was not created from Adam's rib like Eve but from clay like he himself. Nevertheless Lilith was not recogn ...

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, ...

Nazis and Blondes (2008)

Veteran actors from the 3 Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - gather at a castle in Latvia to receive awards for their roles as Nazi villains in propagandist Soviet war films. They reminisce about the films that made them famous throughout t ...

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 ...

I'm In Love With Your Daughter! (2004)

A young guy from impoverished family moves to the big city and by unlikely chance falls in love with a girl who has a wealthy father. When planning their wedding, he asks his father-in-law for a significant amount of money and decides to keep a part of it ...

Good Hands (2001)

The Estonians and Latvians join hands in this jointly produced Baltic comedy about love and theft centering on light-fingered Margita. Everything and anything that hasn't been nailed to the spot winds up in her possession - whether it's a wallet belonging ...

The Mystery of the Old Parish House (2000)

In this movie (based on a true story) within a movie, a director tries to film the tale of an old KGB activist living in a parish house. In the summer of 1941 the activist tortured and killed Latvians in the cellar of the house. Although the old man hires ...

Dangerous Summer (2000)

A historical drama about an attempt to steal the entire Latvian national wealth deposited abroad by Wilhelms Munters, the Latvian Foreign Minister in the forties. ...

Latavio, or Life Nr. 2 (1997)

An omnibus film consisting of ten parts, each directed by a different young director from the Latvian Academy of Culture. The unifying element of the ten shorts is the place where they take place - the airport. A lot can happen there - including a strike b ...

Virgins of Riga (1996)

An easy-going, Blue-eyed Norwegian businessman seeking fame and fortune in the post-cold-war Riga. ...

Christmas Huddle (1993)

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

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. ...

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� ...

The Days of a Man (1989)

Par mīlestību pašreiz nerunāsim (1988)

Strange Moonlight (1987)

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 ...

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. ...

Fear (1986)

Secret Fairway (1986)

The year 1944... The year of the victorious turning point in the WWII, but the Baltic theater of naval battles is still quiet. While performing a combat mission, torpedo boat commander Boris Shubin accidentally discovers a secret fairway of an unmarked Ger ...

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. ...

Can-Can in English Park (1985)

A Ukrainian poet visiting his emigre cousin is threatened into working for the CIA's operations through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. ...

Emil's Mischiefs (1985)

Young Emil lives with his parents and younger sister on a small farm. Emil's kindness and energy make him interfere with everything around him, but the results are usually not what he intended. ...

My Friend Socrates (1984)

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

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 ...

The Gates to Heaven (1984)

The tank corps of General Shubnikov in the spring of 1945 was already on the outskirts of Berlin. The stray rear did not ensure the regularity of the fuel supply. Colonel Lebedenko was commissioned to organize a base of fuel and lubricants in Himmelsfort, ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Longest Straw (1982)

Post-war Latvia. Francis' gang operates in a small town and the new KGB agent Juris Vilks has been asked to infiltrate his gang and gain his confidence. ...

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 ...

Wish Me Bad Weather (1980)

At 30, Margarita seems to have everything—a good career, a job, an apartment, and loyal friends—but she is still unmarried. When her friend sets out to find her a suitable husband, Margarita tests the candidates by pretending to be a single mother rais ...

Spanish Version (1980)

A story of a Latvian journalist spying for USSR in Spain during the civil war. ...

A Birdless Night (1980)

Human relationships are like fishing nets, they can be either filled or nodular. ...

Cīrulīši (1980)

After spending her entire life in the family farmhouse "Cīrulīši," Zelma is faced with the painful prospect of leaving her home and moving in with one of her children. As the family gathers at the house, long-standing personal and everyday problems come ...

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 ...

Mainai (1979)

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov. ...

Mainai (1979)

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov. ...

Your Son (1978)

Rally (1978)

During an international rally two contestants find a hidden painting in the door of their car. In order to not get removed from the track riders do not report to their team management. ...

Vīrietis labākajos gados (1978)

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 ...

Reflection in the Water (1977)

Based on a story by Janis Lapsa, written by Janis Lapsa and Andris Kolbergs, film is a singular work, filled with human warmth. It is a story about a talented surgeon Markalns, who after a serious personal crisis, returns to his native town in order to sta ...

In a Claws of a Black Cancer (1976)

The action takes place in Kurzeme in the 17th century. The Duke of Courland, the King of Poland and the German barons want power over the Latvian people. Farmers are the biggest victims of this power struggle. ...

Keys to Paradise (1976)

Successful work and life of a brave militia captain who does not know much about human psychology. ...

Attack On The Secret Police (1976)

Light at the End of the Tunnel (1974)

A load of gold is stolen. Detectives make criminals play by their rules. ...

Olegs and Aina (1974)

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 ...

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. ...

Blow, Wind! (1973)

Based on a stage play of the same name by the one of the biggest names in the history of Latvian literature Rainis, "Put, vejini" tells a story of an unconventional love that blossoms between the handsome, wealthy and impetuous merchant Uldis and the timid ...

Peterss (1973)

The film is dedicated to Dzerzhinsky's closest associate, the revolutionary Yakov Peters. The film tells about the events related to the uprising of the Socialist Revolutionaries in Moscow in 1918 and the activities of Boris Savinkov's underground. ...

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 ...

Meldru mežs (1971)

The film is about the fisherman Styopa, who alone survived the sinking of a fishing vessel. ...

The City Under the Limes (1971)

There Are Four of Us (1971)

One summer, four guys met on the shore of the Gulf of Riga. Azamat came from Kazakhstan. His uncle, a partisan, went missing on Latvian soil. Katya is from Leningrad, and Arvid and Yazep are Latvians. Arvid's mother lived in Kazakhstan during the evacuatio ...

Beams Through Glass (1969)

The heroine of the film Asya works in the dining room of the Riga Glass Factory. She loves to carve wooden figures and wants to learn how to work glass, like her husband and all their friends. But to Uldis, his wife's hobbies don't seem serious. He is also ...

Don't Shoot on the 26-th (1966)

1943. Soviet intelligence Saeed Islambek, "26th", manages to infiltrate as an instructor in the SS special school, where defectors from Central Asia study. Loyal to his assistants become a scout-Uzbek Nadia, Secretary of the chief of the special school, an ...

The Conspiracy of Ambassadors (1966)

Wagtail's Army (1964)

The civil war in Russia, guerrillas fighting with Kolchak formations. As a result of sabotage, accident with white Russian train takes place. In disaster area the flag with the inscription "Wagtail's Army" is found. Kolchak commanders think that they are B ...

Wagtail's Army (1964)