Vija Artmane

Actress and Her Time. Vija Artmane (2019)

A documentary about Latvian film star Vija Artmane. ...

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 ...

The Golden Age (2003)

Historical period melodrama. ...

For Crazies Only (1991)

A young man is taken to a small town hospital after a suicide attempt. Rita is a beautiful married Russian nurse taking care of him. ...

Katafalk (1990)

What you won't do for the happiness of your only daughter! Successfully get rid of the "beloved child" and not go broke at the same time - that's the only dream of a punchy mother. An old car - once a chic symbol of well-being - will be given as a dowry t ...

Moonsund (1987)

Captain of a Russian battleship "Novik" Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady Klara who is a German spy. They cannot be together because of the war and their professions. But they are in such love that all the war battles and battleships do not stop th ...

A Man of a Retinue (1987)

According to the story of the same name by Vladimir Makanin. Mitya Rodiontsev, a young employee of the research institute, for some time now became one of those who were in the close circle of the secretary of the director Aglaya Andreyevna and felt well ...

The Secret of the Snow Queen (1986)

When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay, his best friend Gerda must overcome many obstacles on her journey to rescue him.. ...

The Last Indulgence (1985)

A story about a young girl Olga and her struggles with the Soviet marketing system. ...

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. ...

Strange Passions (1983)

It is the post-war era on the Latvian border, and the Lithuanian girl Maryte has located her relative, Antanas. Having been a farmhand on a rich farm as well as the lover of the owner's wife, upon his return from the war Antanas hopes to gain as much as he ...

Izmeklēšanā noskaidrots (1982)

State Border: Vol. 1. We are Ours, We are New... (1980)

A former officer of the Separate Border Guard Corps accepts an offer to head the customs service of the young Soviet state. ...

Cīrulīši (1980)

Conversation with a Queen (1980)

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

Pugachev (1979)

Don Cossack Emelyan Pugachev says goodbye to his wife and children and goes to run. The elder Filaret blesses him to lead a rebellion under the name of Peter III of Russia. The insurgents dealt with the feudal lords cruelly. Queen Catherine the Great direc ...

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)

Theatre (1978)

The great actress Julia Lambert suddenly realizes that she is, alas, getting old. What can help a woman who has absolutely everything? Only new love. And Julia falls in love with the first person she meets: an ambitious young man who has not a penny behind ...

Master (1977)

Artūrs comes back to Riga after serving in army and faces changes because of his years of absence- his girlfriend has met another man, his work in a factory in a superior position brings changes to relationships with acquaintances. ...

The Arrows of Robin Hood (1976)

With a traditional archery contest, the winner wins a silver arrow with gold lace and gold feathers. Even Robin Hood, although unrecognizable, takes part in this competition. As more and more participants are losing and Robin Hood eventually wins the award ...

Sea Gates (1974)

A TV movie. The film features songs by Yu.Vizbor, V.Berkovsky, S.Nikitin. ...

Gift for a Single Woman (1973)

To catch a couple of car thieves, a policewoman goes undercover as an old woman that recently has gotten a luxury car "Volga" - a plan that is bound to attract the criminals. For how hard can it be to steal a car from an old woman? ...

Egle rudzu laukā (1972)

I, The Investigator (1972)

A seriously injured young man was found on a Georgian military road. Investigator Georgy Mikeladze finds out that the victim - the navigator of the Tallinn Shipping Company - was rolling in his new Volga on vacation days. The investigator goes to the crimi ...

Tauriņdeja (1972)

Gladiator (1971)

Joonas and Tiidrik are two men from the island of Saaremaa who recklessly escape from the German prison during the First World War. Yet, there are no peaceful times in their home country neither. ...

The Triple Control (1970)

A Soviet officer serves as a counterspy amidst enemies. ...

The Ballad of Bering and His Friends (1970)

The story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering. ...

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 ...

Farkhad's Heroism (1968)

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. ...

Strong with Spirit (1967)

The true story of the Soviet intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov, who, behind enemy lines in Ukraine, infiltrated Hitler's headquarters, kidnapped the commander of the punitive troops and executed the imperial adviser. ...

Andromeda Nebula (1967)

Humans on spaceship named "Tantra" are exploring the unknown part of the Universe. The spaceship gets trapped by the mysterious Iron Star. The Iron Star's powerful force of gravity is to hold the spaceship for 20 years. The humans are facing a very tough s ...

The Swamp Wader (1966)

Latvia in the late 19th century. Edgars, the coachman of Alaine manor, loves Kristine, the washerwoman's daughter, although he is too hot-headed for Kristine's mother to consider him a good suitor for his daughter. Servant Viskrelis and stable boy Sutka tr ...

Kyiv Frescoes (1966)

Parajanov's collage of all the footage that remained from his film "Kyiv Frescoes," which was halted by the Soviet authorities who demanded that all the negatives be destroyed. ...

Nobody Wanted to Die (1966)

The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between the Soviets and the "brothers in the woods", who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets af ...

The Rockets Should Not Fly Up (1964)

Germany, 1944. A group of international soldiers are trying to prevent Germans from finalizing research and development of FAU-2 rockets. ...

Blood Ties (1964)

Tank crew Officer-member Fedotov on the way from a hospital on visiting home became acquainted with young Sonya, mother of three children. After demobilization went back to her. Happiness of them was short. Sonya became ill and died. Soon her husband arriv ...

Diena bez vakara (1963)

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

Kārkli pelēkie zied (1961)

A film about the intertwined fates of ordinary students and the artists of a youth theatre. ...

Stranger in the Village (1958)

A man returns to his village after many years away with his new wife in tow. ...

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)