Videoteca

location_onRiga, Latvian SSR, USSRpublicSU

Nocturne of Chopin 1992
A young pianist and a countryside girl fall in love in a village on a Baltic sea shore just days before the beginning of WWII.

Tapers 1991 star_border 7
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.

Maestro 1990
An ecranisation of an Anšlavs Eglītis's novel of the same title is an ironic story about the Latvian art scene during the 30ies.

Carmen Horrendum 1989
At the center of it is the fate of young women in the war and in the harsh post-war times, when witch-hunting of "enemies of the people" was a common occurrence. The brutal war is mutilating both the girls' bodies and their souls. Location: military hospital. It is just a backdrop to which the character rattles, the intrigue, the human relationships. The pathos of the tape conveys the idea that a woman is and remains a woman in all circumstances and situations. During the tumultuous years of war, they were also overwhelmed by true love, mutual understanding, trust and tenderness.

Latviešu gambīts 1989
About the conflict between the founders of Latvian bobsleigh Rolands Upatnieks and Jānis Ķipurs, about the fight between two personalities, which has given nothing to Latvian bobsleigh.

Svešais 1989
In the center of a small town there is a liquor store, every day a long line of people rubs impatiently by it. Thirteen-year-old Zigis sees his father here more and more often. The faces of many alcoholics have already been stamped by degradation, there is indifference in their eyes, they have lost interest in life. The boy realizes that such a terrible future also awaits the person closest to him. Not expecting to get help from anyone, Zigis decides on an unusual step: he goes to Marta, a popular healer, to save his father. On the way, the boy meets different people and experiences different attitudes towards himself, gets to know the contradictions of life.

Fortune Telling on a Lamb Shoulder 1989 star_border 7
The film takes place in the early 50s in a small Siberian village where the paths and destinies of exiled Latvians, Kalmyks, and Russians crossed. The Kalmyk boy Ligi lives with his grandfather, who goes to the taiga, collects herbs, treats fellow villagers. One day Grandfather was arrested on false charges of murder and arson of the farm.

The High Song 1989 star_border 6
The painful exit of a child of man in the world of God. The highest sense of being and the earthly joy of man and woman.

The Days of a Man 1989 star_border 7

My Paradise 1989
The film is based on the poetry of A. Čakas. The action takes place against the backdrop of pre-war Riga. In the contrasts and poetry of the city, we recognize the world of A. Čakas' poetry with its basic intonations - pain, kindness, self-irony.

Kategoriskais imperatīvs 1989

The Head of Intelligence Service 1989
A documentary about Jānis Bērziņš - a Soviet politician and military intelligence officer of Latvian ethnicity.

Par mīlestību pašreiz nerunāsim 1988

Hack Your Own Leg 1988 star_border 7
An unusually artistic experimental film from Latvia that moves in the sphere of the creation and the world of ballet. Narrated, interpreted and acted by Juris Strenga. - And God said, Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.

86400 Seconds of Police Duty Work 1988 star_border 7
Based on real events in 1974 in Riga: the robbery of collectors and the murder of the driver. The personnel of the Gorky, Odessa regional executive committees and the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Latvian SSR took part in the film.

A House With No Exit 1988 star_border 3
An artist and his lover get trapped in their summer house by a gang of convicts.

Safety Precautions For Galley Work 1988
Instruction in the animation technique.

Crossroad Street 1988 star_border 5.5
Crossroad Street is a small street just 800 metres long on the outskirts of the Latvian capital, Riga. Its various inhabitants, each with his or her own destiny, daily life and relationships with the neighbours, form a microcosm of the country during the time of the Awakening. The genuine interest of the film's creators in the so-called average person earned a number of international awards, including a European Film Award for best documentary in 1989.

Victoria 1988
A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria. The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced into marrying Otto, a lieutenant, to save the troubled family economy.

The Coincidence of Circumstance 1988 star_border 5

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Mirage 1983 star_border 6.4
Tragic events in the lives of five people after they have stolen a car with one million dollars in the safe. This is the job they have all been waiting for. The job that will set them up for life. A million dollars split five ways, who wouldn't be interested? The only catch is that it's the very definition of impossible...or is it? Armed with a brilliant plan, the four men and one woman think they can crack it. But as tensions in the group begin to mount and things start to go wrong, the million dollars feels more out of reach than ever. Even though it is right with them...

Rich Man, Poor Man... 1982 star_border 6.7

Long Road in the Dunes 1982 star_border 6.5

Wait for the «John Grafton» 1981 star_border 8
At the beginning of the summer of 1905, representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Krasilnikov and Elkonen turned to Captain Zhanis Trautman, a Latvian political emigrant living on the outskirts of London, with a proposal to lead a steamer with a cargo of weapons to the shores of Russia. Having recruited a team of old and tried comrades, Trautman changes the crew of an English cargo ship bought by the front men. In the course of the squabble that arose on this occasion, a sailor of the old crew, David Blake, was stabbed. The wounded Blake and the veterinarian Gruber, who accompanied the cargo of anthrax drugs, are forced to leave on board. On the high seas, weapons and explosives were loaded on board. The steamer headed for the Oresund Strait, where a messenger was to meet him.

Театр 1979 star_border 5.5

Смерть под парусом 1977 star_border 7.3

Fuse 1962 star_border 7.6
Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".