Herz Frank

Līdz bīstamai robežai

Herz Frank

A documentary about the role of a victim in crime.

Tava algas diena

Herz Frank

Soviet Union's routine explained through the life of common people.

Augstākā tiesa

Herz Frank

A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his emotional journey through the trial, imprisonment and beyond.

Flashback

Herz Frank

Juris Podnieks

An autobiographical work from Herz Frank. Images guide us through the countries in which he worked, interspersed with fragments from his earlier films: births, autopsies, circumcisions, prisoners awaiting execution and other shocking themes.

На пороге страха

Mariya Kravchenko, Herz Frank

The main characters of the film have made choices, which change their lives forever. A young man Yigal Amir assassinates the Prime Minister of Israel and becomes the most hated prisoner in the country. Larissa, who emigrated from Russia, mother of four divorces her first husband, marries the assassin and gives birth to his son. For many years the film authors have been trying to solve and perceive this complicated story. One of them, Hertz Frank, passes away during the shootings remaining on the threshold of the eternal mystery - life, death and love...

Sāļā maize

Herz Frank

Herz Frank short film.

Жили-были Семь Симеонов...

Vladimir Eisner, Herz Frank

One family, one band. They seemed to be happy. A movie that investigates why these seemingly optimistic musicians suddenly saw no hope to continue living in USSR and tried to escape it by hijacking a plane.

Laika tilti

Kristine Briede, Audrius Stonys

Herz Frank, Uldis Brauns

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more romantic view of the world around them. This meditative documentary essay – from a Latvian writer and Lithuanian director whose composed touch has long dovetailed with the stylistically diverse works of the Baltic New Wave – pushes adroitly past the limits of the common his-toriographic investigation to create a portrait of less-clearly remembered filmmakers. The result is a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation. Also a cinematic poem about cinema poets.

Vecāks par 10 minūtēm

Herz Frank

A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don't; we can only guess from their faces.

Augstā dziesma

Herz Frank

The painful exit of a child of man in the world of God. The highest sense of being and the earthly joy of man and woman.

Aizliegtā zona

Herz Frank

Follows the life of a 16 yearo-old convict through the Soviet penal system.

Ebreju iela

Herz Frank

"The Jewish Street" is a documentary produced by Augusts Sukuts and directed by his close colleague, Latvian-born director Hertz Frank, one of the founders of the Baltic poetic documentary genre. "The Jewish Street" is dedicated to the painful issues of the Holocaust and the Riga Ghetto.

Gājiens ar zirdziņu

Ansis Epners, Herz Frank

Reportage about competition for draft horses which turns into cinematographic parable about people’s desire to achieve the impossible.

Mūžs

Herz Frank

A psychological portrait of kolkhos chairman Edgar Kaulin, who saved many Latvian farmers from deportations by the Soviets in the period 1945-53, and with them built up a kolkhos.

Māksla

Herz Frank

Pusdienā

Herz Frank

A poetic film about theatre being played to workers of a factory during their lunchbreak.