Artūrs Skrastiņš

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Janvāris
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Janvāris

Jun 10, 2022
It is 1991 in Latvia and nineteen-year-old aspiring cinematographer Jazis’s whole world is thrown into chaos as he is dragged into the people’s peaceful protests against the Soviet Army’s attempted takeover of power in his country.
Drama
Еврей
1

Еврей

Oct 24, 2023
The USSR, 1946. The main character, Mikhail Krasnitsky, travels to different cities across the country. When he arrives, he commits cold-blooded murders, for reasons that are not yet evident. The Secret Service manages to connect all of these crimes and figure out that all of the victims were former death camp inmates. However, the murderer’s motive still remains unclear.
Drama
Rolstein On The Beach
8

Rolstein On The Beach

Jan 01, 1997
In September 3, 1997, an art project - the annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contepmporary Arts-Riga was opened. The centre - piece of the event was the experimental opera "Rolstein on the beach", that was shown in Dailes theatre. The music and libretto of the opera was written by Hardijs Ledins and Kaspars Rolsteins, and popular musicians, actors and well - known public persons took part in the opera.
Music
L'adultère
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L'adultère

Aug 30, 2012
En examinant l'une de ses patientes, un médecin révèle que son mari trompe la femme du patient.
Drama
Baiga vasara
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Baiga vasara

Apr 04, 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.
Drama
Marijas klusums
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Marijas klusums

Apr 04, 2024
The film tells the story of an artist avoiding a confrontation with power and the artistic and personal consequences of this choice. A powerful historical drama on the true story of Maria Leiko, famous actress who late in her career has to decide between fame and love for her grandchild, between her ideals or the lies of Stalin’s totalitarian regime.
Drama
Scortum
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Scortum

May 30, 2007
The relationships between two people are never easy. Especially when complicated by their professions. We are used to think that profession or occupation puts a stamp or a mask on peoples' personality. He is a pastor, she is a prostitute. Everything's clear. But underneath he is a man, she is a woman. Simple and difficult in the same time. Short film "Scortum" tells the story of the mazy relationships between sin and happiness which can never be solved.
Drama
La Bataille de la Baltique
5.7
La Première Guerre Mondiale s’achève, et pourtant une nouvelle bataille se prépare. L’Allemagne, sous couvert d’aider les états baltes à devenir indépendants, lance une guerre pour coloniser cette région et étendre son territoire. A Riga, ville assiégée, le peuple se prépare au combat. Parmi eux, Martin quitte sa ferme et sa femme pour rejoindre la résistance.
Action
Rūdolfa mantojums
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Rūdolfa mantojums

Jan 15, 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, a thorn in the Baron’s side, becomes truly uncontrollable when he’s hit by Cupid’s arrow. The old boy is willing to do anything for simple maid Emily. But the girl loves his godson Karlis. It’s all a mix of riches, of cheating, and the Baron’s lawlessness. The fight of two relatives for Emily’s heart changes the fate of both men and the maid, so she can see sunshine through the tears.
Drama
The Pagan King
6.4

The Pagan King

Jan 17, 2018
Namay, jeune orphelin du Royaume de Sémigalie, voit son destin basculer le jour où le Roi Vester le choisit comme unique héritier. Désormais à la tête des guerriers païens les plus redoutés de la Baltique, il est loin de se douter qu’il a rendez-vous avec l’Histoire. A Rome, de l’autre côté du continent, le Pape prépare sa croisade contre ce peuple d’hérétiques. Bientôt, une puissante armée viendra tout anéantir sur son passage. Jalousé par ses rivaux, porté par les espoirs de tout un peuple, le jeune Namay n’a d’autre choix, pour forger sa légende, que de se préparer au combat…
History
Likteņdzirnas
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Likteņdzirnas

Nov 21, 1997
Melodramatic movie with colorful elements of comedy and songs that have deeply rooted in the Latvian folklore. Love triangle - terminally ill university teacher, blind girl and young bard. In the background - wild arrival of the capitalism, political conflicts, city life and beautiful nature of Latvia. In the end love conquers everything though not everybody lives to witness that.
Drama
Bille
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Bille

Apr 20, 2018
A family film based on the book Bille by Vizma Belševica. An extraordinary, lonely yet spiritually strong little girl attempts to comprehend the adult world, which in her eyes is very contradictory, and to prove her own value despite the ignorance and lack of appreciation by her family in late 1930s. Bille tries to find an escape in her vivid imagination.
Family
The Mover
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The Mover

Oct 18, 2018
Les efforts de la famille de Zanis Lipke pour sauver les Juifs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale tout en élevant un enfant dans une situation historique tragique.
History
TUR
6.2

TUR

Aug 16, 2019

TUR

TUR [ There ] - drama about relationships in virtual an physical world - blending boundaries of both worlds.
Science Fiction
Цой
4.4

Цой

Nov 12, 2020
15 août 1990. Viktor Tsoi, la rock star la plus célèbre d’Union soviétique, leader du groupe Kino, symbole de liberté et de changement, meurt dans un accident sur une autoroute lettone. Le chauffeur de bus impliqué dans le tragique accident ramènera son corps à Leningrad. Une fête de personnes en deuil - la femme de Tsoi et son nouveau petit ami, sa maîtresse, sa productrice, son jeune fils et un photographe obsédé - font partie du voyage de retour. Cela va être un long voyage, l'occasion parfaite pour un dénouement angoissant d'amour, de jalousie, d'ambition et de cupidité.
Drama
Vecās pagastmājas mistērija
5
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 others to brick over the cellar door, the murdered people keep coming through the stones and never leave him in peace. Unbeknownst to the film makers, the "real" KGB activist, now an aged drunk, is milling about the film set. Moreover, the director and lead actor are competing for the love of the lead actress, and the film's producer wants the director to re-shoot parts of the movie.
Drama
Ūdensbumba resnajam runcim
5.6
The two sisters' parents have gone abroad to earn the living, so the girls Marta and Linda needs someone to take care of them. For that they have their dictatorial spinster aunt Una, who desperately wants to get married, and has a sympathy for the jeweler Ivo. Meanwhile, Marta is working hard to get a promised puppy, but her plans are ruined, as her aunt feels a strong despise for dogs. So, the relations between the girls and their aunt becomes really tense. Until the perfect plan of the sisters - to help the aunt to get married, to get rid of her.
Family
Les Petits voleurs
6.2

Les Petits voleurs

Mar 26, 2009
Âgé de 5 ans, Robby a l'âme d'un héros. Quand une banque met ses parents à la rue, il se lance dans le cambriolage de l'établissement. Aidé de sa sœur, il est convaincu que sa mission sera une simple partie de plaisir...
Comedy
Maģiskais kimono
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Maģiskais kimono

Dec 01, 2017
“Magic Kimono” tells the story of middle-aged Japanese woman Keiko, who has been living in a shell for decades due to a family tragedy in Kobe. The modest act of eating and the sensations it gives us provided Keiko a lifeline to survive. Unwillingly, she joins a group of Japanese women traveling to Northern Europe to participate in a kimono show in the fairytale-like art nouveau world of Riga. During her performance, Keiko suddenly comes face to face with her husband, who disappeared twenty years ago and now wants to read-dress their relationship and who Keiko has become.
Comedy
Mūžīgais dzinējs. Raimonds Pauls
1
Raimonds Pauls is almost 85 years old, rehearses almost every day and performs at least once a week. What drives him? Not only he is the most popular composer in Latvia: his songs are sung all over the world. "Dāvāja Māriņa" is so popular in Japan that Paul received the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun. In concerts, he collaborates with world stars of Latvian origin - soprano Elīna Garanča, organist Iveta Apkalna, conductor Mariss Jansons. The Latvian Television film crew follows him during the pandemic, realizing that the restrictions and threats of Covid-19 hardly stop the Maestro in the course of his eternal engine. How does he cope with the challenges that time imposes on a person's physical form and the loneliness when most friends have passed away? What is the source of his inexhaustible lifestyle and creative spirit?
Documentary
Tīklā. TTT leģendas dzimšana
1
A girl from Stalin-era Riga hopes to one day meet her brother living in exile again - through playing basketball. Her determination inspires team and entire nation - this is how the most legendary women's basketball team "TTT Riga" was born.
Drama
Pansija pilī
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Pansija pilī

Feb 26, 2024
A miniseries about the events during one summer in a family of a writer who are unexpectedly granted a remote estate with all its unusual inhabitants, and who has to decide what to do with the dilapidated estate. Exciting and comic events in eight episodes in which the future writer Anšlavs Eglītis together with his brother Vidvuds, father Viktors and his wife Hilda Vīka, begin the restoration of the estate, at the same time opening a boarding house, which becomes the intersection and summer stage of the neighbourhood, ghosts of the past, visitors from the city and Latvian intellectuals in Latvia in the 1920s.
Comedy
Adreses
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Adreses

Nov 07, 2019
With the eyes of ordinary people, Adreses explore successful and less successful or even scandalous examples of architecture and environment building. Martins Kibilds goes to two places or addresses, every time taking a different person with him – without professional experience in architecture, but with a keen desire to explore, think and share impressions with the audience.