Jānis Putniņš
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Biography: Studied at the German Language Department of the University of Latvia, Faculty of Foreign Languages. Holds a Bachelor's degree in Film Directing from the Massachusetts College of Art, a Master's degree in Media Studies / English from the State University of New York. He has been director of several Latvian film studios and Latvian National Opera. He was the creative director of ADELL Saatchi & Saatchi.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Latvia - USSR
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Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Zeno's Paradox

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Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2022-10-02
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Hide-and-seek

Overview: A young woman, Regina, has been killed in her apartment. Investigator Anderson holds Regina’s husband as a suspect for a murder because he is unable to remember his location at the time of the fateful event. Gradually, Anderson is convinced that Oto has not only killed his wife, but he also tries to hide his true identity – notorious criminal Schmit.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Investigation of Related Events

Overview: The movie shows a young man's life dramatically changed after his friend is murdered. It is ironic - if to look with today's eyes - and nostalgia evoking portrait of marginal society and environment in the early 1990s with allusions to the western cinema - film noir related themes, surrealistic features, avantgard cinema stylization and formal aesthetics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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Touch of Dzenis

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Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2017-11-23
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The Year Before the War

Overview: Stylized as silent cinema, the film connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of a new world. This mysterious adventurer, who was known as Peter the Lett, gets involved in a tragicomic and surreal race from a routine clerk job and a romantic passion in Riga to preparation of the world revolution in Vienna, psychoanalysis at Freud’s salon and seduction of Mata Hari in Paris.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2021-11-17
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Lotus

Overview: Alice von Trota returns to her father’s manor in Latvia in 1919 to sell it and start a new life. She meets the hostile resistance of the local workers and discovers she has been lured into a carefully tailored trap set by a demonic lawyer, a decadent underground organisation and its necrophile leader. While escaping the clutches of her “helpers”, she meets some silent-cinema enthusiasts and learns to use the cinematograph as a tool for healing and self-discovery, as a weapon against her enemies and as a way to create a masterpiece.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2025-04-11
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