Uldis Dumpis
Also Known As: Улдис Думпис
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bauska, Latvian Republic
Adult: No
Birthday: October 03, 1943
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Male
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Latavio, or Life Nr. 2
Overview: An omnibus film consisting of ten parts, each directed by a different young director from the Latvian Academy of Culture. The unifying element of the ten shorts is the place where they take place - the airport. A lot can happen there - including a strike by a comet, a malicious attempt to break havoc by passengers, or an exploration of the old airport guard's house where not a lot has changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The film consists of the following parts: A Mishap (Nediena) by Arta Biseniece, Blurp (Šļurp) by Aija Bley, Alien Sky (Svešās debesis) by Viesturs Kairišs, 5 Versions (5 versijas) by Dzintars Krūmiņš, Comet (Komēta) by Māra Liniņa, Cleptomania (Kleptomānija) by Andis Mizišs, Alfredo's Poetry (Alfredo dzeja) by Igors Varenieks, Little Hand (Mazā roka) by Ilze Vidauska, Comet 2 (Komēta 2) by Anna Viduleja, and Life No. 2 (Dzīve nr.2) by Kristīne Želve.
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Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1997-06-30
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The City Under the Limes
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1971-10-04
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A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer's Eve
Overview: When old auntie Mirta succeeds in a lottery and wins a car, which she cannot use herself, different family members are suddenly there to 'be helpful' in favor to get the car after aunties' death, not to mention, they never have come before to help her. The funny rivalry between two parts of family, a foolish jealousy to the near living peasants' family, which had always non-selfishly been there for auntie, is a caricature of greasy human nature. This is a slight humor of the Soviet life details as well. But aunt Mirta isn't fool, and is still young in her heart until her last minute, that appears in her last will - to whom the car, the limousine in the color of St. John's night goes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1982-02-01
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There Are Four of Us
Overview: One summer, four guys met on the shore of the Gulf of Riga. Azamat came from Kazakhstan. His uncle, a partisan, went missing on Latvian soil. Katya is from Leningrad, and Arvid and Yazep are Latvians. Arvid's mother lived in Kazakhstan during the evacuation, Yazep's uncle and his grandfather were also partisans. The military past brought the guys closer together. The trip to the places of partisan battles was not easy for the friends, but they learned a lot about the events that took place in Latvia during the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-08-01
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Attack On The Secret Police
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Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1976-04-12
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I'm In Love With Your Daughter!
Overview: A young guy from impoverished family moves to the big city and by unlikely chance falls in love with a girl who has a wealthy father. When planning their wedding, he asks his father-in-law for a significant amount of money and decides to keep a part of it for himself. To have the wedding on the cheap, he hires inexperienced wedding organizers and asks them to make it look as posh as possible for the low cost. His plan ultimately backfires when the organizers overdo it.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2004-05-06
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Keys to Paradise
Overview: Successful work and life of a brave militia captain who does not know much about human psychology.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1976-06-14
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Checkmate to the Queen of Diamonds
Overview: A detective and a militia captain are working together investigating a murder. When their job is done, the feelings do not let them say goodbye.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1973-10-29
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The Game Is Taking Place Anyway
Overview: A businessman and a footballer are murdered before an important football match in Prague. Investigation has to be started.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1985-12-26
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Dangerous Summer
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2000-04-04
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In a Claws of a Black Cancer
Overview: The action takes place in Kurzeme in the 17th century. The Duke of Courland, the King of Poland and the German barons wants power over the Latvian people. Farmers are the biggest victims of this power struggle.
Genres: Adventure Comedy History
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1976-08-31
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The Conspiracy of Ambassadors
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Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1966-03-26
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Can-Can in English Park
Overview: A Ukrainian poet visiting his emigre cousin is threatened into working for the CIA's operations through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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Rally
Overview: During an international rally two contestants find a hidden painting in the door of their car. In order to not get removed from the track riders do not report to their team management.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1978-06-06
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Секретный фарватер
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Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Nazis and Blondes
Overview: 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 the USSR, but also stigmatized the Baltic countries as Nazi sympathizers in the eyes of many Russians - a misconception that is nowadays exploited by the Russian media, desperate to label the Baltic countries as a fascist haven.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2008-05-09
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Blow, Wind!
Overview: Based on a stage play of the same name by the one of the biggest names in the history of Latvian literature Rainis, "Put, vejini" tells a story of an unconventional love that blossoms between the handsome, wealthy and impetuous merchant Uldis and the timid, humble and clear-hearted orphan Baiba.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Reflection in the Water
Overview: Based on a story by Janis Lapsa, written by Janis Lapsa and Andris Kolbergs, film is a singular work, filled with human warmth. It is a story about a talented surgeon Markalns, who after a serious personal crisis, returns to his native town in order to start his life anew. The attention is concentrated on the inner world of Markalns, his feelings in this so important period of his life, when to endure and to proceed means to regain the lost sense of life and himself. His character and emotional world opens in a wide scale: in collisions with colleagues, patients, friends, himself. He is contradictory, but even in moments of low spirits, virile. A real warmth and balance of mind is brought in the life of the outwardly robust and clumsy surgeon by a shy small-town girl Irita, called Doggie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1977-01-03
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Rudolf's Gold
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2010-01-15
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Light at the End of the Tunnel
Overview: A load of gold is stolen. Detectives make criminals play by their rules.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-10-19
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My Friend Socrates
Overview: A story about ten years old Raymond who wants to learn how to drive a car.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1984-12-29
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Littlefinger
Overview: Little Tom Thumb's evil stepmother exploits him amd makes his life very hard, so the little shepherd boy decides to leave home and seek happiness in the world outside. There little Tom Thumb meets the Wind Mother, Forest Mother and a little old man on his way. Each of them gives him a chore to do that earns him a gift with magical power, which comes in handy when he has to defeat Scrooges, Lop-Eared Man and the Devil himself. While traveling in the world and looking for happiness, he realises he misses his grandmother and little sister...
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1987-01-03
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The Gates to Heaven
Overview: The tank corps of General Shubnikov in the spring of 1945 was already on the outskirts of Berlin. The stray rear did not ensure the regularity of the fuel supply. Colonel Lebedenko was commissioned to organize a base of fuel and lubricants in Himmelsfort, where a small group of Soviet soldiers had to enter into an unequal battle with the remnants of an enemy tank regiment, trying to break through the city.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-02-01
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My Family
Overview: After his family was introduced on a national TV as a "perfect family", the son Robert has a hard time confronting all the lies related to this accidental fame.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1982-07-03
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Naughty Emil
Overview: One of the iconic Latvian movies. Based on Astrid Lindgren's book 'Emil of Lönneberga'. A story of a little boy, Emil, who, according to others is incredibly naughty, but actually Emil is a lot more kind hearted than all the rest. And everything he does is to help someone. But somehow it all the time turns out like a prank. His family won't agree with any pranks on themselves, so there goes Emil in his father's tool shed, where he's locked up for every prank. Includes the phrase - 'the main idea is to keep your feet warm', which has been adapted in Latvian culture, so it's already a saying.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1985-01-04
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Grandpa More Dangerous Than a Computer
Overview: Eight-year-old Oskar’s holidays start miserably; his parents “swap” the computer for his granddad to protect the child from the dangerous influence of the Internet.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2017-08-18
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Peterss
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1973-05-21
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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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Stari stiklā
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Par mīlestību pašreiz nerunāsim
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1988-11-30
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The Hostage
Overview: The Hijacker lands the plane at the Rīga Airport. 7 year-old Tom, travelling on his own, voluntarily becomes a hostage. Along with the traditional demands, the Hijacker adds the demands of the little hostage – beginning with some local chocolate and a self-instruction tape for learning the native language, and ending with organizing a Song Festival and a special biathletes’ performance – all ideas originating from a CD on Latvia.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2006-05-01
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Don't Shoot on the 26-th
Overview: 1943. Soviet intelligence Saeed Islambek, "26th", manages to infiltrate as an instructor in the SS special school, where defectors from Central Asia study. Loyal to his assistants become a scout-Uzbek Nadia, Secretary of the chief of the special school, and Deputy chief of the Gestapo Berg. When one of the most important military tasks are dying, sacrificing himself, Nadia and Sayid.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-06-02
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To Be Unwanted
Overview: Voldis Viters is released after seven years in prison. He is 46 years old and has no family or job. Some of his old friends have abandoned the life of crime, and policeman Leo Aleksandrs, as well as the beautiful taxi driver Irēna, try to persuade Voldis to forget the past and move on. But when the crime boss Teksis proposes a plan to rob a jewelry store, Voldis agrees, thinking this will be his last crime before starting a new life. Marking the pinnacle of its director's filmography, To Be Unwanted is a psychological drama that centers not on a single crime or its investigation but on the emotional collapse of the criminal as he realizes that his amoral lifestyle has rendered him redundant within society.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1976-12-21
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The Mystery of the Old Parish House
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2000-07-11
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A Birdless Night
Overview: Human relationships are like fishing nets, they can be either filled or nodular.
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Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1980-06-16
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Virgins of Riga
Overview: An easy-going, Blue-eyed Norwegian businessman seeking fame and fortune in the post-cold-war Riga. His involvment with a beautiful young Latvian girl, get's him tangled into obscure business with the mafia, the Russian fleet and the 'Sons of Norway'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1996-05-26
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Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg
Overview: Adam’s first wife Lilith is mentioned in the ancient Oriental legends, in Talmud and in the medieval books of Cabala. According to these sources, she was not created from Adam's rib like Eve but from clay like he himself. Nevertheless Lilith was not recognised by Adam as his equal and left him after a quarrel heading for Babylon. She has no soul, and she is immortal. Lilith assumes different names, can change her appearance, and takes possession of men against their will. Once it's accomplished, she leaves her victims forever, marking them for either spiritual, or physical death. Whatever she does it is neither Good nor Evil. She is made of an altogether different matter. Inspired by the works of French writer Anatole France, Yevgeny Pashkevich‘s GULF STREAM UNDER THE ICEBERG consists of three dramatically interwoven stories with the immortal Lilith stalking through time and space with her demonic mission.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-06-26
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Defenders of Riga
Overview: The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Meldru mežs
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1971-12-13
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Ceplis
Overview: Latvia in the 1920s. The enterprising Edgars Ceplis establishes a company to produce bricks from Latvian clay for export. Many are involved in his project, hoping for the huge profits the venture promises. Ceplis soon becomes infatuated with his office typist Austra Zīle and starts neglecting the business...
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1972-01-03
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Olegs and Aina
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Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1974-05-27
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Christmas Huddle
Overview: Ziemmassvetku Jampadracis tells the story of the Cirulisi, a tight-knit family down on their luck, and their trials and tribulations during the Christmas season.
Genres: Family
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1993-11-21
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Vīrietis labākajos gados
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1978-04-10
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Cīrulīši
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1980-01-03
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Spāņu variants
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Genres: War
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1980-07-12
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Wish Me Bad Weather
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1980-07-14
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The Longest Straw
Overview: Post-war Latvia. Francis' gang operates in a small town and the new KGB agent Juris Vilks has been asked to infiltrate his gang and gain his confidence.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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A Shot In The Forest
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1984-09-17
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Double Trap
Overview: A police is trying to fight the criminal organization responsible for the illegal export of arts abroad. He pretends to be a criminal to enter and destroy their gang.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-01-06
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It's Easy to Fall Into an Overgrown Ditch
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1986-03-03
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Fear
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1986-01-03
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Strange Moonlight
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1987-02-02
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The Days of a Man
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Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1989-01-03
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The Zitars
Overview: Tragedy of the Zitars family based on the novel by Vilis Lacis.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1990-05-22
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Tapers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1991-01-07
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Maritime Climates
Overview: The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power hadn’t got worried by the rushes they saw, which lead them to terminate the production. In 1992, Rolands Kalniņš made this edit of the remaining material – an elegy to lost hopes and illusions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Fact
Overview: Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a few survivors, the testimony of villagers, and some of the Germans responsible for the killing, the film gradually reconstructs the event and its context.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1981-06-04
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Three Days of Reflection
Overview: Head of the CID and his colleagues are investigating a serious crime but the main witnesses are of no help.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1982-08-12
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Umurkumurs
Overview: The story that happened at the fair in honor of the national harvest festival.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Icebreaker Krišjānis Valdemārs
Overview: In the Gulf of Finland shipwreck hunters come across the remains of a sunken ship. Having examined the images obtained by an underwater robot, researchers come to a conclusion that the wreck remains are that of “Krišjānis Valdemārs” – independent Latvia´s first icebreaker. The story of an icebreaker allows viewers to the look at the history of Latvia between wars from a new angle and provides insights into the little known, but fascinating episodes of a maritime history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2012-05-04
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Wagtail's Army
Overview: The civil war in Russia, guerrillas fighting with Kolchak formations. As a result of sabotage, accident with white Russian train takes place. In disaster area the flag with the inscription "Wagtail's Army" is found. Kolchak commanders think that they are Bolsheviks, but guerrilla leader does not know anything. It turns out that this is work of three boys.
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-28
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Good Hands
Overview: The Estonians and Latvians join hands in this jointly produced Baltic comedy about love and theft centering on light-fingered Margita. Everything and anything that hasn't been nailed to the spot winds up in her possession - whether it's a wallet belonging to a passer-by or a Jeep. But the police are on to her and the streets of Riga are becoming just a little too dangerous for Margita these days (played by rising Latvian star Rezija Kalniņa). She decides to break camp and hitchhike her way up north coming to rest at a little place called Vineeri in Estonia, where she soon finds herself looking after an entire household, including three men and a small boy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2001-04-06
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The Times of the Surveyors
Overview: The second half of the 19th century. The arrival of land surveyors in a Latvian village for the redistribution of land provoked a scandal...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1991-05-05
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