Oļģerts Kroders
1921 - 2012Elpojiet dziļi
Rolands Kalniņš
Uldis Pūcītis, Līga Liepiņa
Cezars Kalnins, portrayed by "Latvian Harrison Ford” Uldis Pucitis, installs telephones by day and composes pop songs by night. The puritan Soviet censorship deems Cezars’s lyrics "unsuitable and frivolous” and "unfit for the Soviet youth”. In fact, it can be argued that this assessment matches the opinion of the Soviet cinema authorities in regard to this film as a whole, since "Four White Shirts” was immediately banned and released in cinemas only in 1986. The creative boldness and stubbornness, evident in both Cezars’s bitingly ironic verses and the film’s unconventional narrative structure and fresh, new-wave-inspired mode of expression, turned out to be equally problematic for the hero and for the film itself, as well as for its director whose representation of the actual mechanisms of Soviet censorship ended up too realistic for his own good.
Four White Shirts
Ceplis
Rolands Kalniņš
Eduards Pavuls, Helga Dancberga
Latvia in the 1920s. The enterprising Edgars Ceplis establishes a company to produce bricks from Latvian clay for export. Many are involved in his project, hoping for the huge profits the venture promises. Ceplis soon becomes infatuated with his office typist Austra Zīle and starts neglecting the business...
Ceplis
Gaidiet "Džonu Graftonu"
Andris Rozenbergs
Jānis Paukštello, Juris Pļaviņš
В основе сюжета - действительные события, происшедшие в сентябре 1905 года. Гапон вместе с эсерами на пароходе «Джон Графтон» организовал перевозку оружия в Россию, закупленного, как позже выяснилось, на японские деньги в Европе. При не выясненных до конца обстоятельствах, возможно здесь имела место провокация, пароход сел на мель, и революционерам удалось получить лишь часть оружия.
Gaidiet "Džonu Graftonu"
Motociklu vasara
Uldis Brauns
Inese Jansone, Pēteris Gaudiņš
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.
Motorcycle Summer
Piektais Hamlets
Mārtiņš Eihe, Krista Burāne
Oļģerts Kroders
What does the question “to be or not to be?” mean? 86 year-old director Olģerts Kroders stages his fourth production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Valmiera Drama Theatre. The theatre is more than merely his occupation, for he not only works there but also spends all of his time in it. The film depicts his routine and the rehearsal process up until the premiere, and provokes a dialogue using the four actors who have all played Hamlet in the different productions. Kroders’s life and the lives of the actors tell the history of Latvia and the fates of different generations.
The Fifth Hamlet
Dāvanas pa telefonu
Aloiz Brench
Stass Petronaitis, Eugenija Pleškite
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.
Gifts over the Phone
Отряд особого назначения
Vadim Lysenko
Leonhard Merzin, Pavel Remezov
Intelligence-diversionary group of athletes who know how to shoot snipers, run, jump, feel free in the water and under water, to withstand the monstrous load of hand-to-hand fights, will be able to reach the goal only going together, passing the task as a relay. Seven of them. Among them is a girl swimmer. It will be the most difficult, the last stage of the journey. The plot is based on the real facts of the great Patriotic war.
Special forces unit
Молчание доктора Ивенса
Budimir Metalnikov
Sergey Bondarchuk, Leonid Obolensky
In the surreal aftermath to a plane crash at sea Dr. Iven an eminent scientist is the only survivor to be taken into the confidence of the alien rescuers. He learns that the world with its weapons of mass destruction is not ready for the wonders of the culture of the pacifist visitors. The situation is further complicated by the close relationship that blossoms between the doctor and the female alien, and due to this relationship he is the only survivor allowed to retain his memory of the events, unlike the other survivors including his wife, whose memories are erased.
Silence of Doctor Ivens
24-25 neatgriežas
Rostislav Goryayev, Aloiz Brench
Zhanna Bolotova, Aleksandr Belyavskiy
In the experimental clinic, a batch of valuable drug was stolen. Major Grigast suspects that someone from the clinic is involved in this. He entrusts this complex matter to a young investigator Mara. An investigation leads her to a distant border town in the south of the country, where the offender intended to ship the drug abroad.
24-25 Doesn't Come Back
Pēdējā reportāža
Dzidra Ritenberga
Ilona Ozola, Georgi Taratorkin
Расследование политического убийства бесстрашного репортера - одиночки приводит главного героя к неразрешимому конфликту с силами неофашизма в стране. Сенсационный материал опубликован... Герой мертв.
Last Reportage
Контракт века
Aleksandr Muratov
Vladimir Gostyukhin, Nikolai Karachentsov
Для переговоров с западногерманскими финансистами о строительстве газопровода «Сибирь — Западная Европа» делегация сотрудников советского Внешторга прилетает в ФРГ, где сразу же попадает под наблюдение ЦРУ: американские спецслужбы заинтересованы в срыве «контракта века»…
Контракт века
Завещание профессора Доуэля
Leonid Menaker
Oļģerts Kroders, Igor Vasilev
The film is based on the popular science-fiction novel “Professor Dowell’s Head” by Russian writer Alexander Belyaev. For many years, a prominent scientist had been striving to solve the problem of immortality. He shared the results of his daring and risky experiments with his colleagues. But one day something happened that no one could have foreseen: the professor had disappeared. The best student and follower of Professor Dowell tries to use the results of his scientific research for criminal purposes. It looks like he is going to succeed…
The Testament of Professor Dowell
