Pauls Butkevics
Also Known As: Паул Буткевич, Pauls Butkevics, P. Butkevics, Pall Butkevitch, Paul Butkevich
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR
Birthday: August 08, 1940
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Right of First Signature
Overview: An employee of the foreign trade association Kazakov makes an offer to the American businessman Vikas to invest in the construction of a chemical plant. It was decided to build it on the site of a gasification station in Nizhne-Pechorsk. Vikas' decision to conclude a contract for the construction of the plant becomes known to American businessmen, who are not interested in this cooperation. Ron Kluger comes to Moscow to interfere with the negotiations...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-10-01
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Wrath
Overview: Historical drama about the Tatarbunar uprising in southern Bessarabia in September 1924. The plot is based on the complicated relationship between two brothers standing on opposite sides of the barricades. The betrayal of one of the brothers led to a spontaneous uprising of the poor, which swept the entire south of Bessarabia and was brutally suppressed by the punitive occupation forces.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-09-16
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Набат на рассвете
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-04-01
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Tāpēc, ka es esmu Aivars Līdaks
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1979-07-16
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Boomerang
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Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-02-05
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Школа
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Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Waterloo
Overview: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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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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Agent of the Secret Service
Overview: Musician Stefan meets a young attractive woman Lidia. Stefan is going on tour to Austria, and Lydia, "accidentally" remembering her Viennese acquaintance, asks to give her a souvenir from Moldova. In Vienna, Stefan is met by people who are well aware of his private life and even familiar with his diary. The musician begins to suspect something is wrong, but when his daughter's well-being is threatened, Stefan becomes truly worried...
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-03-25
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Four White Shirts
Overview: Cezars Kalnins installs telephones by day and composes pop songs by night. His band has a hard time receiving the permit from Soviet censorship authorities for a public debut. A member of the Culture Committee superficially listens to Cēzars' songs and deems the lyrics "unsuitable and frivolous” and "unfit for the Soviet youth”, and is later powerless to stop the grindstone of public debate, which she has herself initiated.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1967-01-04
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Brothers Rico
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Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-05-04
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Белая земля
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-08-21
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Маленький сержант
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Genres: Family War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-11-01
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Comrade Brigade
Overview: The action takes place in one of the major port cities of the North. Young welder Mark Talalin and foreman Ilya Besedin cannot find the true reasons for their disagreements and conflicts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-02
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European Story
Overview: Two candidates are vying for the post of mayor of one of the major Western European cities - the Social Democrat Dr. Hayden and the "free nationalist" Alden. On the eve of the election, an independent journalist receives documents confirming Alden's connection with the secret services. He becomes the object of blackmail, but does not change his intentions to expose Alden.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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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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The Return Of The 'Saint Luke'
Overview: In the first movie colonel Zorin is trying to find a stolen "Saint Luke" painting.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-12-07
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Muskal
Overview: Young investigator leads cases related to drug trafficking, while his boss, connected to the underworld, seeks his arrest.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-10-06
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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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Seven Screams Across the Sea
Overview: A fantastical fable based on a play by Alejandro Casona.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-06-23
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Incident at Map-Grid 36-80
Overview: Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-12-07
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Vivat, Naval Cadets!
Overview: In the second movie the Naval Cadets are guarding the princess coming from Germany to marry a Russian prince.
Genres: Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-08-31
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Victory
Overview: 30 years after the end of World War II, a Soviet and an American journalist meet again for realizing post war paths of their countries.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-04-01
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Rats, or Night Mafia
Overview: A former orphanage resident, having served time for a fight, returns to his hometown, terrorized by the local mafia. Not wanting to put up with their criminal laws, the hero courageously enters into battle...
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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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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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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If You Want To Be Happy
Overview: Andrei and Tanya love each other, which is why frequent partings are so difficult for them: Andrei is a test pilot, and Tanya works on television, and both are constantly on business trips. They have two sons — twins. For eight years of marriage, they cannot count a total of three when they were together. And yet they are happy...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-04
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Unfinnished Dinner
Overview: In one of the prestigious restaurants during banquet speech a large company's director Palmgren is killed in front of dozen guests . Case is lead by Criminal Investigation Officer Pierre Monson with his assistants. Suspect can be easily intercepted if only miserably lazy police officers Kvant and Kristiansson instead of catching criminal would not argue with father of little 3 years old boy who yelled: "Police, police, mashed potatoes" when they ate hot dogs. Help comes from capital in form of the famous Commissioner Martin Beck, who discovers that murdered industrialist was involved in illegal activities and had many enemies. The case is linked as well with government's "higher ends".
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1979-09-08
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Far to the West
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-03-26
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The Chronicle of the Night
Overview: A plane bound for Africa ends up in the hands of hired killers. Their goal is to prevent the Soviet doctor from getting to Lega, where he is to operate on the leader of the liberation movement.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-06-04
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Inspector Goole
Overview: Sudden arrival of a police inspector in the middle of a bourgeois family's dinner party reveals various sordid and shameful secrets that may have contributed to the recent suicide of an impoverished young woman.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-09-13
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Seven Elements
Overview: The Earth is facing great problems in the nearest future it is in the lack of sun light. Physicist Olmin is leading the project to build a special tunnel - made of elementary fractions - from the sun to the earth, in order to the earth could get much more sun energy and light. At the same time a strange flower is brought to the Earth from a dead planet.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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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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The Hippocratic Oath
Overview: After a botched surgery a rookie doctor takes a job in a meteorological station in the Arctic Circle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1965-02-04
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From Pay to Pay
Overview: The shoe factory is undergoing production reform. Poor quality shoes no longer bring savings, the company began to suffer only losses. To get out of this crisis, the factory management decided to produce normal products designed for the wishes of the consumer. To do this, you must cope with new technologies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-02-17
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A Ring from Amsterdam
Overview: A young sailor suddenly gets involved into a spy game between KGB and CIA.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-04-11
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The Dogs of Riga
Overview: A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to help but when he returns to his home country he is mysteriously murdered. Kurt flies to Riga to find out why and is drawn into complex conspiracy.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-11-09
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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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Tony Wendice's Mistake
Overview: An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-05-03
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The Adventures of Quentin Durward, Marksman of the Royal Guard
Overview: France, XV century. The young Scot, striving to make his worthy efforts, is kindly treated by the king and admitted to the guard. Soon the king entrusts him with a difficult mission - however, the matter turns into an insidious deception. Saving his beloved, the shooter of the guard shows miracles of courage and nobility ...
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-09-01
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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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The Diamond Trail
Overview: An expedition group led by Professor Shestakov arrives in one of the regions of Siberia to search for diamonds. The research begins with a dramatic event: The expedition leader dies suddenly. However, the geologists decide to continue the difficult, dangerous hike along the taiga "diamond trail".
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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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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The Fortress
Overview: A group of Soviet paratroopers are engaged in a secret operation in Adriatic sea during the last year of WWII.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-02-05
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The Aquanauts
Overview: While doing their work on the deep underwater station two aquanauts discover strange mystery: it seems as if one of the aquanaut's girlfriend who recently died in a car crash had turned into a big manta fish. That manta writes words on the station's port-holes and tries to draw attention many other ways.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-10-11
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With No Expiration Date
Overview: Leaving the seaside town at the end of the Great Patriotic War, the SS men hid lists of secret agents. A few years later, Sam Page, a former fascist mercenary Semyon Paygin, and two other agents come to the USSR in order to search for the archive. After all, the crimes of SS agents have no statute of limitations.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-04-30
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Tenderness for the Roaring Beast
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by A. Bakhvalov. The plot is based on a story-interview about the testing of the new strategic missile carrier Tu-22K and Tu-22M2/M3 (for well-known reasons, in close-ups, instead of them, the film shot the then less secret Tu-134 UBL - a combat training laboratory) and the tragic events associated with them, given to journalist Odintsov by test pilot Borovsky. Testing of a new jet aircraft, the psychology of human life, the problems and joys of life of pilots - all this is closely intertwined in the film. The heroes of the film - friends test pilots Dolotov and Sanin - have walked together all their lives. But it so happened that one of them, Dolotov, was once unfairly suspended from flying, while Sanin failed to protect and support his friend. Friends' paths diverged...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-06-06
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Spāņu variants
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Genres: War
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1980-07-12
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Cry of a Dolphin
Overview: The crew of the new American strategic missile submarine "Archelon" is struck by an unknown virus. The command must decide on removing the submarine from combat duty and sending the crew to quarantine.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Grand New Year's Night
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1978-11-30
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Street Without End
Overview: Immediately after the prom, Olya Rusanova arrives in the city where her father worked and tragically died. Many years ago he dreamed of building a city, and now she is walking along the street bearing his name, a street without end. Having met her father’s friends, Olya learns him anew. They tell the girl how her father wanted to see large houses and wide streets on the site of the tent city. How he knew how to be friends and to love, and how longed for Olya when he broke up with his wife, who didn't agree to go with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-12-01
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Code of Silence
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-11-08
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The Large Amber
Overview: A band arrives late at the competition. They try to find the jury and show their performance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1972-07-11
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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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Motorcycle Summer
Overview: On his 18th birthday, Māris receives a motorcycle from his parents, and, while driving around with his friends, they pass a wedding car. The bride, Inese, is entering a loveless marriage, so she allows Māris to steal her from the wedding reception.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1975-07-13
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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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Before the Big Road to War
Overview: The film takes place in the pre-war years. NKVD captain Frolov is investigating a sabotage at a chemical plant. Suspicion falls on circus performer Erwin Gross. However, the villainous murder of a clown suspends the investigation. It is only with the help of young circus gymnasts that Frolov manages to establish the truth...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-09-30
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The Barman from 'Golden Anchor'
Overview: A barman from an elite bar for Soviet nomenklatura is greedy and not a true Leninist at all. Someone who in the Soviet Union often becomes an 'easy pray' for evil CIA agents. The barman from the "Golden Anchor" is about to become a CIA agent himself but his friends and families help him to find some Soviet patriotism inside his soul.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-08-25
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Old Plane Tree
Overview: About the family of the old man Achila-Buva, about his children and grandchildren living in an Uzbek village, about an old plane tree covering the saplings with its branches.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-10-21
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