Velta Līne

The Indrans (1991)

Despite her frailty and longing to end a bitter feud, the mother of the Indrans household remains a formidable matriarch. Her strength is especially evident in her confrontations with Ieva, whose actions she cannot forgive after discovering that her son's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rain Blues (1982)

A lonely thirty year-old woman lives in a small apartment on the edge of town. She meets a man, life looks brighter, but she suspects he's hiding something from her. ...

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 ...

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981)

As an adviser to the emperor Nicholas II, mystic Grigori Rasputin holds great influence over the empire. However, many in St Petersburg begin to regard Rasputin, with his strange practices and mesmerizing qualities, as a liability and plot his assassinatio ...

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. ...

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 ...

Attack On The Secret Police (1976)

During the 1905 Revolution, secret police arrest a man travelling under the identity of the merchant Karlsons, suspecting that he is in fact a prominent revolutionary. His tense psychological duel with secret police chief Greguss becomes a battle of wits, ...

Olegs and Aina (1974)

At one of Riga's largest factories, young worker Oļegs graduates from institute with an engineering degree, yet finds it difficult to leave the shop floor behind. As he struggles to reconcile his new professional path with his attachment to the work he kn ...

Klavs - The Son of Martin (1970)

The son of Martins Viksna, the collective farm chairman, Klavs comes home from the military service and starts working in his native kolkhoz but does not understand his colleagues, so he goes to town. ...

The Republic of Varnu Street (1970)

Children of Varnu Street whose fathers work in nearby factories face the "Tuliana Empire" - a group of boys, children of merchants from the nearby Lauku Street. ...

Ceļa zīmes (1968)

Young Ģirts leaves the city for a summer work placement in the countryside, where he stays with his beloved uncle Roberts, whom he has admired since losing his father. But the charming uncle proves to be a reckless driver, heavy drinker and womaniser, mak ...

“Ciklons” sāksies naktī (1967)

In the final days of the Second World War, German intelligence attempts to organise sabotage groups in the encircled regions of the Carpathians. As part of Operation Cyclone, experienced Captain Schwarzbruck is chosen to coordinate the mission. But Soviet ...

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 ...

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 ...

History Lesson (1957)

In 1933 Berlin, Bulgarian communist Georgi Dimitrov is caught up in the Reichstag fire trials when Nazis seek to frame communists. Despite orchestrated provocations and mass repression, Dimitrov's defiant courtroom defense exposes the baseless charges, for ...

To a New Shore (1955)

The dramatic fates of the Līdumu, Tauriņu, and Pacepļu families from the 1920s to the 1950s. The conflict between the Līdumu and Tauriņu dynasties as a class struggle, ending with the victory of the Līdumu family. ...

Mājup ar uzvaru (1948)