Vija Artmane
Also Known As: Вия Артмане, Vija Alida Artmane, Артмане Вия Фрицевна
Biography: Vija Artmane was a prominent Latvian film actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kayve, Sema volost, Tukums uezd, Russian Empire
Birthday: August 21, 1929
Deathday: October 11, 2008
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Andromeda Nebula
Overview: Humans on spaceship named "Tantra" are exploring the unknown part of the Universe. The spaceship gets trapped by the mysterious Iron Star. The Iron Star's powerful force of gravity is to hold the spaceship for 20 years. The humans are facing a very tough survival challenge... Based on famous novel by Ivan Efremov.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-04-12
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Blood Ties
Overview: Tank crew Officer-member Fedotov on the way from a hospital on visiting home became acquainted with young Sonya, mother of three children. After demobilization went back to her. Happiness of them was short. Sonya became ill and died. Soon her husband arrived after children, but left with a father only junior.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-02-08
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The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
Overview: The story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-06-06
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Moonsund
Overview: Captain of a Russian battleship "Novik" Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady Klara who is a German spy. They cannot be together because of the war and their professions. But they are in such love that all the war battles and battleships do not stop them, only their duties do.
Genres: War Drama History Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-12-01
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Love
Overview: Two Moscow students are mostly concerned with scoring with women but their lives change radically when one of them falls for a Jewish girl whose family is being persecuted by anonymous anti-Semites and is preparing to emigrate to Israel.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-12-01
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The Rockets Should Not Fly Up
Overview: Germany, 1944. A group of international soldiers are trying to prevent Germans from finalizing research and development of FAU-2 rockets.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-06-06
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The Arrows of Robin Hood
Overview: With a traditional archery contest, the winner wins a silver arrow with gold lace and gold feathers. Even Robin Hood, although unrecognizable, takes part in this competition. As more and more participants are losing and Robin Hood eventually wins the award, his masquerade reveals. For none of the participants is as handy with a bow and an arrow like Robin Hood. With the help of his coolness and his friends Robin Hood may escape the dangerous situation.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-10-04
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The Golden Age
Overview: Historical period melodrama.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-06-06
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Kyiv Frescoes
Overview: Parajanov's collage of all the footage that remained from his film "Kyiv Frescoes," which was halted by the authorities who demanded that all the negatives be destroyed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2023-05-28
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Strong with Spirit
Overview: Story of a Russian intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov (known as lieutenant Paul Wilhelm Zibert) who worked in the capital of occupied by fascist troops Ukraine. 960 days and nights were left until the end of the Second World War.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-10-30
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Anna
Overview: The film tells of faithful devotion to spiritual ideals. It is based on Riga St. Anna Stocken's Life Story of the Cistercian Monastery of Mary Magdalene.
Genres: History Mystery
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1996-03-01
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A Man of a Retinue
Overview: According to the story of the same name by Vladimir Makanin. Mitya Rodiontsev, a young employee of the research institute, for some time now became one of those who were in the close circle of the secretary of the director Aglaya Andreyevna and felt well protected from the vicissitudes of fate. Having become a “retinue”, Mitya was no longer engaged in science, but was busy for those who needed him, openly respected him and saw him as a future leader. But once Rodiontsev was not invited to the director’s office for a weekly tea party...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1987-07-12
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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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Storm
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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The Swamp Wader
Overview: In this film, set in Latvia in the late 19th century, Edgars, the coachman of Alaine Manor, loves Kristine, the washerwoman's daughter, although he is too hot-headed for Kristine's mother to consider him a good suitor for his daughter. The servant Viskrelis and stable boy Sutka try to tempt Edgars to a life of drinking and a relationship with the barmaid Matilde. Meanwhile, Kristine is courted by the rich land owner, Akmentins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1966-07-13
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After The Storm
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1956-11-26
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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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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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Cīrulīši
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1980-01-03
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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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Nobody Wanted to Die
Overview: The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between the Soviets and the "brothers in the woods", who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets after the end of the Second World War.
Genres: Drama Action History Western
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1966-04-18
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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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Kārkli pelēkie zied
Overview: A film about the intertwined fates of ordinary students and the artists of a youth theatre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1961-04-13
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Theatre
Overview: Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1978-10-15
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Izmeklēšanā noskaidrots
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Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1982-07-19
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The Secret of the Snow Queen
Overview: When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay, his best friend Gerda must overcome many obstacles on her journey to rescue him..
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-06-05
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The Last Indulgence
Overview: A story about a young girl Olga and her struggles with the Soviet marketing system.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1985-12-09
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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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State Border: Vol. 1. We are Ours, We are New...
Overview: A former officer of the Separate Border Guard Corps accepts an offer to head the customs service of the young Soviet state.
Genres: Drama War History TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-05-28
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Pugachev
Overview: Don Cossack Emelyan Pugachev says goodbye to his wife and children and goes to run. The elder Filaret blesses him to lead a rebellion under the name of Peter III of Russia. The insurgents dealt with the feudal lords cruelly. Queen Catherine the Great directs troops against the rioters. Traitors betray Emelyan, and now he is being transported across Russia in an iron cage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-03-19
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Farkhad's Heroism
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-04-15
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The Triple Control
Overview: A Soviet officer serves as a counterspy amidst enemies.
Genres: War
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1970-06-08
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Your Son
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Tauriņdeja
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1972-01-03
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Stari stiklā
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Gladiator
Overview: Joonas and Tiidrik are two men from the island of Saaremaa who recklessly escape from the German prison during the First World War. Yet, there are no peaceful times in their home country neither.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1971-09-20
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For Crazies Only
Overview: A young man is taken to a small town hospital after a suicide attempt. Rita is a beautiful married Russian nurse taking care of him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1991-02-18
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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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Katafalk
Overview: What you won't do for the happiness of your only daughter! Successfully get rid of the "beloved child" and not go broke at the same time - that's the only dream of a punchy mother. An old car - once a chic symbol of well-being - will be given as a dowry to the simpleton who agrees to go down the aisle. But love makes its own corrections.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-07-10
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I, the investigator
Overview: A seriously injured young man was found on a Georgian military road. Investigator Georgy Mikeladze finds out that the victim - the navigator of the Tallinn Shipping Company - was rolling in his new Volga on vacation days. The investigator goes to the criminal and, having connected employees of the Riga criminal investigation department to the case, arrests the robber.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-01-03
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Mainai
Overview: Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1979-02-12
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Conversation with a Queen
Overview: A cinematic portrait of the actress and performer Vija Armane.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Diena bez vakara
Overview: The directing debut of the acclaimed Latvian cinematographer Māris Rudzītis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1963-04-29
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Master
Overview: Artūrs comes back to Riga after serving in army and faces changes because of his years of absence- his girlfriend has met another man, his work in a factory in a superior position brings changes to relationships with acquaintances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1977-01-06
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Strange Passions
Overview: It is the post-war era on the Latvian border, and the Lithuanian girl Maryte has located her relative, Antanas. Having been a farmhand on a rich farm as well as the lover of the owner's wife, upon his return from the war Antanas hopes to gain as much as he can from the collapse of the old world. The wife's daughter, Ausma, has since grown up and seems much more desirable to Antanas than his former lover. The historical situation makes for a tense atmosphere, because in the nighttime partisans may emerge from the forest, while during the daytime everyone must be careful to follow the new rules of life under Soviet rule.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Actress and Her Time. Vija Artmane
Overview: A documentary about Latvian film star Vija Artmane.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2019-08-21
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