Juris Žagars
Also Known As: Juris Zagars, Юрис Жагарс, Yuris Zagars
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]
Birthday: January 26, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Troubled Minds
Overview: Brothers Robert and Martin are a month away from their largest art exhibition. To get creative juices flowing, Martin locks himself in a black cube. Once out, brothers fall into a wild rollercoaster of events existing on the very edge of the chaos, examining the thin line between the artist’s creativity and mental troubles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2021-11-20
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Dragon's Egg
Overview: The film’s protagonists Ieva and Apollon are former workers of a collective farm. Once they loved each other passionately. Yet it was in "another" life, the time of kolkholzs. The attempt to revive that love ends up in a tragedy. However the story goes on. The events around their burial are so intriguing that mass media raise them to the level of the United Nations.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Wild Swans
Overview: Once upon a time, a King had eleven sons and one daughter. When his wife, the Queen, died, the King remarried. The new wife and the children's stepmother looks beautiful on the outside, but actually she's an evil witch. She sends the young princess Eliise to live in the village as an ordinary peasant girl and turns all the princes into wild swans. The princes are stuck being swans all day long and only at night can they regain their true form. When Eliise is 15 years old, she learns about the fate of her brothers and now she must overcome the obstacles put in her way by her stepmother in order to release her brothers from the spell.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1987-12-18
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The Nevsky Prospect
Overview: After photo journalist Melissa Maldari's father disappears after a meeting with a Russian mail order bride she travels to Russia to find the truth about her father and the underworld of human trafficking.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-26
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The Double
Overview: A man sees his picture on a 'Most Wanted' board and after going to police he meets someone who looks suspiciously similar to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Fortune Telling on a Lamb Shoulder
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1989-04-02
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The Dark Deer
Overview: 17-year-old Ria is a sensitive and mysterious young woman. Ria's mother has suffered in a car accident and has stopped speaking since her daughter's birth. The family grows deer for sale, yet, the business is not successful. To earn some money, her father decides to organize a hunt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2007-07-11
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Duplets
Overview: Ecological criminal intrigue during the international billiard tournament in Riga.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1992-07-12
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The Zitars
Overview: Tragedy of the Zitars family based on the novel by Vilis Lacis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1989-07-12
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The Only Picture
Overview: Historical reenactment of preparation in Nov. 17 and proclamation of independence of Latvia in Nov. 18, 1918 and in epicenter is only taken photograph of this historical moment.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2009-11-14
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Little Robbers
Overview: Can you honestly swear that at least once in your life you have not thought that robbing a bank is a good idea? Especially, if you're five years old and that bank has just thrown your parents out of a brand new apartment, because your father has lost his job. Five year old Robby is no Zorro, but he'd like to be. His seven year old sister Louise thinks he's too childish, but can't resist the game of robbing a bank. Together they can pull off just about anything. Getting away with it is the hard part.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Family
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2009-03-26
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Aija
Overview: 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 work out their relationships.
Genres: TV Movie Romance
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1987-11-16
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Johan Falk: From the Ashes into the Fire
Overview: Falk is blackmailed into smuggling a truckload of guns from Latvia.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-06-29
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Reply with Photo
Overview: The shy scientist Lars decides to publish a small ad in order to find a girlfriend. From the 218 replies, he selects Brigita, an attractive Latvian woman and invites her to Stockholm. But what actually happens after Brigita's arrival is far more complicated than Lars could ever have imagined.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-08-20
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Roses of Autumn
Overview: The film is about a middle-aged couple experiencing a midlife crisis. The husband and wife are tired of life together and start to forget the love they once shared in their youth.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2004-03-31
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The Python
Overview: An absurdist farce centering around a school in post-Soviet Latvia. After a rather disgusting prank (someone defecates in the school attic), the tyrannical headmistress deems that no one can leave until the culprit is caught. When the photographer's pet python escapes, havok breaks loose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2003-09-01
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The Pagan King
Overview: On his deathbed, the reigning king bestows power to an unexpected heir who must find strength within himself to unite his people against the violent crusades which threaten their freedom.
Genres: History Adventure Action
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2018-01-17
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Then It's Hi! Hi! Hee!
Overview: The elderly nursing home residents for years feel worthless and troublesome. But then a crazy idea strikes them - to waive their pensions and enroll in the army as volunteers thus saving the country from financial crisis and spending excitingly the last years of their lives. The oldies are wise enough at organizing this event and now real adventures begin.
Genres: Action Drama Comedy
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2014-03-05
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Don't Talk About It
Overview: Beatrise is drifting in life. She has based her existence on unsuccessful relationships that have collapsed, like sand castles, one after the other. Forced to re-evaluate things, she realizes that she can only achieve harmony by learning to rely on herself, and not on illusory feelings or words.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2007-08-14
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Vakara variants
Overview: A 38-year-old teacher Anna in a small town is longing to have a child. The opportunity arises when she meets a cargo driver who travels through her town. He turns out to be married with a child in another town, so Anna doesn't wish to pursue the relationship, but the man is ready to change the course of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Dear Life
Overview: 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 Krišjānis Barons' life during late 1800s and early 1900s – his childhood and youth in Latvia, studies and work in St. Petersburg and other places in Russia, his relationship with his faithful wife Dārta, and the awakening of the Latvian self-awareness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1989-01-04
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Nude
Overview: An awkward young man adopts the online MYSPACE identity of his friend, a popular journalist, in order to attract a woman who he otherwise feels would be out of reach. He succeeds and after corresponding with the girl for some time, he travels to meet her, all the while impersonating his friend (whose picture is rarely published with his articles). Surprisingly, when he finds her, she is living with her boyfriend and claims to have no MYSPACE identity at all. It seems the recluse neighbor of the girl has hijacked her online identity also. Intrigue and moral corruption ensue as this case of stolen virtual identity leads to disaster for both the imposters and all those involved.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2008-12-18
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Žagari
Overview: 'Žagari' traces the lives of Andrejs and Juris Žagars, brothers from the city of Cēsis, who both became distinguished in the arts as actors and administrators of art institutions, while both also found success as entrepreneurs. The original plan of the filmmakers was to show two strong personalities with their characteristic relationship and rivalries. However, fate intervened during the filming process, transforming the result into a powerful and touching portrait of brotherly love and the importance of family ties.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2019-10-16
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The Exalted
Overview: Renowned German organist Anna discovers her Latvian husband's involvement in a corruption scandal, shaking the foundation of their life together. Can she come to terms with this new reality about her husband?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2024-11-15
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Limonov: The Ballad
Overview: A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey through Russia, America, and Europe during the second half of the 20th century.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-05
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Gaiss
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2024-12-11
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