Videoteca

location_onRiga, Latvian SSR, USSRpublicSU

Dziedot dzimu 1991

Turtles 1987
An animation film that got the award for best Latvian animation in 1987.

Bear of Happiness 1985
A legendary animation film by Roze Stiebra.

Ibsen's Motif 1984
A meditation on Henrik Ibsen's plays "Brand" and "Peer Gynt".

A Sister's Journey 1984
An animation film based on Latvian folk songs, significant due to its artistic style which was far removed from the social realism which was the only accepted form of artistic expression in the Soviet Union at the time, and also due to its undertones related to national identity.

In My Pocket 1983
A variety of animals go on a musical adventure though the countryside.

Sarežģītais zvirbulēns 1983

Tom Thumb 1982
An animation film based on the play by Anna Brigadere. (Not to be confused with the feature of the same name by Gunārs Piesis!)

Kas tas ir - kolhozs? 1981
A lightly-humoured animation film explaining the origins and the idea behind "kolhoz" in the Soviet system.

Kā es braucu Ziemeļmeitas lūkoties 1980
An animation based on a story by Kārlis Skalbe

Little Hares' Bath 1979 star_border 3
On Saturday night Mother Rabbit takes her children to the bathhouse in the forest, but their happy bathtime ritual is disturbed when a dog dashing through the mist accidentally runs into the bathhouse. The little rabbits scatter in different directions, but in the end everyone falls asleep in their own cradles.

Ūdensbrīnums 1978
The protagonist's adventures tell a story about the water supply system.

Suns Funs un vējš 1978

Abi gali balti, viducis zaļš 1977
A musical tale about the seasons.

Zaļā pasaka 1977
An animation film based on a story by Imants Ziedonis about the relationship between a human and nature.

Dillī Dallī Saules dārzā 1976

Skudriņa Tipa 1976
An animation film about a little ant who leaves the house for the first time in her life and tries to find out what the sun is.

Brīnumputns 1976
Roze Stiebra's animation film based on Latvian folktales.

Dillī Dallī Minku parkā 1975

The Golden Sieve 1975
Three animated songs for the youngest viewers, based on the classics of Latvian children's literature. Poems The Golden Sieve, The Cloud Boy and the Cloud Girl, and The Sun and the Moon by Rainis tell children in poetic images "how things happen in the sky", where the goddess of fate Laima scatters stars like diamond seeds, Cloud Children annoy Father Thunder by swinging and overturn the big rain bowl, but the beautiful Daughter of the Sun falls in love with the stately Moon Boy.

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