Valdemārs Zandbergs

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� ...

Dear Life (1989)

A homage to Krišjānis Barons and his life's work – to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas,thus creating the encyclopaedia of Latvian life, a poetic reflection of the knowledge of life accumulated over the centuries. The film is based on K ...

State Border: Vol. 7. Salty Wind (1988)

A group of saboteurs was sent into Estonia in 1959. This group included a local resident who also has his own personal goal: to find the daughter he lost at the end of the war while fleeing abroad. ...

If We Live Through All This (1987)

Revolution of 1905 in Latvia. ...

Aija (1987)

After twelve years in the city Jānis returns to the country and marries his first love - now a widow with three children - Aija. But the happiness is not meant to be because the husband and the wife share different views of life and, ultimately, can't wor ...

Strange Moonlight (1987)

Kā mēs aizgājām no mājām (1986)

A short film based on motifs from Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš' book "Es stastu savai sievai" (I Tell My Wife). ...

Fear (1986)

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)

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 ...

Laikmetu griežos (1981)

A film based on novels by Latvian writer Andrejs Upīts tells a story about Latvian peasants around the 16th/17th century when they were under the role of several other countries. ...

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 ...

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, ...

Keys to Paradise (1976)

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

Faithful Friend Sancho (1974)

Ten year old Sancho arrives to Leningrad and starts looking for friends. ...

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. ...

Land, Poste Restante (1973)

Based on a true story about Soviet spy Lev Manevich. He lives in Italy and operates in the Nazi Germany and Austria. Manevich, who is posing as a businessman, collects information about the latest German airplanes made by Messerschmitt for Luftwaffe. On hi ...

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 ...

Капитан Джек (1972)

The Warrior of the Queen (1970)

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

Swing (1970)

The Skylark Shoots First (1967)

Tobago Changes Course (1966)

Summer, 1940. Foreseeing the collapse of the Ulmanis regime, the owner of a ship sailing off the coast of Latvia decides to flee the country. Subsequently, the sailors learn about the establishment of Soviet power in their homeland, and the ship changes co ...

The Conspiracy of Ambassadors (1966)

Captain Nulle (1964)

Valdis Nulle is a young and ambitious captain of fishing ship 'Dzintars'. He has his views on fishing methods but the sea makes its own rules. Kolkhoz authorities are forced to include dubious characters in his crew, for example, former captain Bauze and s ...

Iolanta (1963)

The daughter of René, King of Provence, who has been blind since birth, is unaware of her misfortune thanks to her father's diligence. She is betrothed to Robert, Duke of Burgundy. Her father hopes to restore his daughter's sight before the wedding with t ...

Diena bez vakara (1963)

The directing debut of the acclaimed Latvian cinematographer Māris Rudzītis. ...

Pieviltie (1961)

After becoming a teacher, Janis Lazdan returns to his native village in Latgale. In Novie Gudani, he sees black cassocks everywhere. Nuns sit at the bedside of his sick mother. The girl he loves, Lienite, is dressed in the black habit of a novice. Anton, J ...

Echo (1960)

Latviešu strēlnieka stāsts (1958)

A story of a Latvian rifleman between two revolutions. ...

Rita (1958)

The last summer of World War II in a Latvian fishing village. Ten-year-old Rita risks her life to care for and provide everything necessary for four prisoners of war rescued by fishermen—a Frenchman, a Russian, and two Latvians—who are hidden in the at ...

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 ...

After The Storm (1956)