Harijs Liepiņš
Also Known As: Харийс Лиепиньш, Харий Лиепиньш
Biography: Harijs Liepiņš (born December 15, 1927 – August 3, 1998) was a Latvian theater and film actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Terney volost, Valmiera County Latvia
Adult: No
Birthday: December 15, 1927
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 03, 1998
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Man in the Passage Yard
Overview: Grigory Mikhailovich Yushkov, who was killed in the passage yard, was considered dead during the Great Patriotic War. In those same years, under strange circumstances, the partisan detachment and the entire city underground were destroyed. They were betrayed by a man nicknamed "Centaur", who was never found. What are the motives for the murder of Yushkov and is he a “Centaur”? An investigator from Moscow will have to find out...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-05-15
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Memories Echoing in Sounds...
Overview: Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko goes for a walk in Kyiv. Along the way, his memory takes him back in time: first to his childhood in the village of Hrynky; to May 1861, when he attended Taras Shevchenko's funeral; to a trip to Leipzig; to the time when he was working on the opera "Taras Bulba"; to the images of Olha O'Connor and Olha Lypska, who gave him love, happiness, and inspiration.
Genres: History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1987-08-10
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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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Storm
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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Honore de Balzac's mistake
Overview: It is a story of the relationship of A French writer and a beautiful duchess Ganskaya. The events take place in a picturesque estate of the aristocrat on the Ukrainian land, which is under the power of Polish landowners. Ganskaya is considered to be the most important woman in Balzac’s life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-01-06
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Rock and Splinters
Overview: During World War II three best friends are mobilized into the Waffen-SS Latvian Legion. Years later their fates continue to intertwine, as memories of war loom in back of their minds.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1967-04-24
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Egle rudzu laukā
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Genres: Family
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1972-10-09
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Gifts over the Phone
Overview: After the train conductor Pētersons receives money transfer from an unknown source, he suspects foul play involving the cargo he's transporting. He decides to do his own investigation into the matter, not realizing that he's putting himself and those around him in danger.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1978-08-14
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Dangerous Curves
Overview: A romantic comedy about two rival motorcyclists who are in love with two twin sisters. It is a remake of the 1959 film Naughty Curves and was the first film shot in the Soviet-designed Kinopanorama format.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-07-21
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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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Madness
Overview: Before the end of the Second World War, a special commando marches into a mental hospital located in a beautiful manor house to eliminate the patients. But the Gestapo has received an anonymous letter saying that an enemy agent is hiding among the madmen. Officer Windisch is tasked with finding a simulant among several hundred mental patients in a matter of days.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1969-02-17
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Nauris
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Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1957-11-26
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The Golden Echelon
Overview: 1919 year. There is a civil war in Siberia. Taking advantage of the complete confusion, Admiral Kolchak wants to export part of the country's gold reserves abroad. At the very last moment the Bolsheviks find out about it. They decide to intercept the train, but do not have time to properly prepare the operation... The girl Nadya, in whom the head of the train is passionately in love, can save the situation. Several kilometers of railway tracks to the border become a battlefield between white and red.
Genres: War Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-11-04
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Naughty Curves
Overview: When Vaike, a student and athlete from Tartu, arrives to Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa speedway, the bikes are already racing with dizzying speeds. The same dizzying adventures will be ahead, when Vaike meets multiple-times champion Raivo, who has been dizzied with sports progress and young ladies, and with champion candidate Heino, who helps Vaike to prepare for competition. Vaike cannot “hold her horses” alone and counts for her sister Maret, who also in past have had helped her out from similar difficult situations. But this time also comes into play Maret’s fresh husband Ants, who is convinced that he no more mix up the twin sisters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1959-12-27
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The Cool Guy
Overview: Soviet engineer Viktor Loginov, who came to one of the East as a technical representative of the Minsk Automobile Plant, had to take part in an international rally due to the illness of a professional racer. Among the experienced aces from other countries, Victor was a beginner. Many representatives of foreign firms are interested in losing in the most difficult struggle. This would give an occasion to close the path to the world market for the new Soviet machine. But courage, mutual assistance and self-confidence help Victor overcome all stages of the most difficult path, where the danger came from both nature and people.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-05-22
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Синдикат-2
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Genres: Action History Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-06-29
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Gift for a Single Woman
Overview: To catch a couple of car thieves, a policewoman goes undercover as an old woman that recently has gotten a luxury car "Volga" - a plan that is bound to attract the criminals. For how hard can it be to steal a car from an old woman?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1973-01-04
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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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The Times of the Surveyors
Overview: Land surveyors arrive in two parishes to measure and redistribute manor land. The rivalry between both feoffees for land and woman begins.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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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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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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Ice Run
Overview: Two proud fisherman families live on a very small island in Estonia. The two fishermen have always bore a grudge against each other. Their stubbornness and disobedience to German occupiers leads to dramatic events where staying alive is worse than death. Since it is impossible to escape public contempt, they have to decide how to redeem themselves.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1963-02-25
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The Kotsiubynsky family
Overview: The events of the film cover the story of the Kotsiubynsky family in the years 1912-1918, ending with the defeat of the Central Rada and the establishment of a Soviet republic in Ukraine in the spring of 1918.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-03-14
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Stranger in the Village
Overview: A man returns to his village after many years away with his new wife in tow.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1958-11-26
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Following the Swan Flock of Clouds
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1957-08-08
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Autumn is Still Far Away
Overview: A young girl is puzzled when she has to choose a husband. She cannot decide whether to marry her childhood friend or a recently met nouveau riche.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1966-02-14
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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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Spāņu variants
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Genres: War
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1980-07-12
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When Rain and Wind Hit Against Your Window
Overview: The Second World War has just ended, but national partisans are still hiding in Latvia's forests and fighting against the Soviet regime. Ansis Leinasars, who has been tasked to spark a coup in Latvia, arrives by night from across the sea, but his work is hampered at every step. His last hope is a meeting with the partisans in a church...
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1967-12-18
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To a New Shore
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1955-11-04
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And Entering the Ring...
Overview: The story of Rufat Kudratov, his difficult path to success, victory and fame as a boxer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-08-04
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