Valentins Skulme
Also Known As: Валентинс Скулме, Valentīns Skulme
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
Birthday: April 21, 1922
Deathday: September 12, 1989
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Slomannaya Podkova
Overview: По мотивам повести Жюля Верна "Драма в Лифляндии". Французский аэронавт Жюль Ардан, путешествуя на воздушном шаре, случайно оказывается в Ревеле. Здесь он знакомится с доктором Петерсоном и его дочерью Лейдой. За женихом Лейды охотятся жандармы. В городе происходит убийство сына банкира. Подозрение падает на Петерсона. За расследование преступления берется Жюль Ардан.
Genres: Mystery Crime Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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In the Underworld
Overview: A story about children helping the Soviet Army during the war.
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Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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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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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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The Lark
Overview: Russian prisoners of war commandeer a tank and lead the Nazis on a cross-country chase in this World War II adventure drama. The Russians use their own tanks so the Nazis can use them as target practice to test a new anti-tank weapon. Knowing that death is near, the brave Russians run amok and tear down German monuments before heading out to a field where female slave laborers are working.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-22
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The Unforgettable
Overview: About hardships of the first years of War, which fell to the lot of ordinary people in Ukraine, who got under the yoke of fascist occupation, and heroic struggle against the invaders. A young Russian woman asks a Red Army soldier to spend the night with her in the wake of the Nazi invasion. Fearing she may soon perish, the woman hopes for one night of romance before what could be a horrible demise.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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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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Arena
Overview: In one of the occupied European cities, the commandant of the garrison gathers a troupe of circus performers. Coming from different countries, they are in the humiliating position of people forced to serve their enslavers. Many of them, recruited from camps and workhouses, were quite content with their lot. Only after a chain of subsequent events, the artists raise an uprising. Unarmed people are not able to resist the arrived guards. They die, but at the cost of their lives they regain their lost human dignity.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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Third Time
Overview: The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team of Soviet prisoners of war, former "Dinamo". It happened in Kiev on June 22, 1942. Anticipating the possibility of losing, the Germans made a condition — defeat or death. If the Germans won, the Soviet footballers were promised freedom...
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-04-11
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Three Hundred Years Ago...
Overview: In the middle of the 17th century, Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks rose up to fight against the Polish gentry rule. About the events of the National Liberation War in Ukraine under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who with a firm hand led the insurgent masses to an alliance with Russia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Ilga-Ivolga
Overview: The wounded Russian soldier Fyodor, risking his life, was sheltered on a Latvian farm by his grandfather and granddaughter. Ilga fell in love with him, but the war separated them. Fedor went to the partisans, and Ilga is killed by the Nazis. Only many years later Fedor came again. Here he meets a young woman very similar to Ilga.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1974-05-10
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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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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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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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Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill
Overview: The 30-year war still goes on. Riga headmasters have decided to submit themselves to mercy of Polish-Lithuanian Duke. Rigas' defenders disagree strongly and steal the ceremonial Key of Riga. Will they succeed in their fight against all odds? Will three Latvian musketeers have their happily ever after?
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1972-07-12
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Victoria
Overview: A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria. The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced into marrying Otto, a lieutenant, to save the troubled family economy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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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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Viesnīca Tanatos
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Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1977-09-11
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People Don’t Know Everything
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-11-02
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Retribution
Overview: The continuation of a story started by Alexander Stolper epic movie "Zhivye i Myortvye".
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-10-10
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