Jānis Grantiņš

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

The hard work plays an important role in the personal growth of a runner.

In 1812, as Napoleon's army invades Russia, Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the armies' impending confrontation. As the Battle of Borodino rages, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Part three of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.

After losing his job, Kārlis is forced into grueling work at a remote peat quarry—only to find himself caught between the Communist underground and the Latvian counterintelligence service, where every choice carries a moral cost.

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?

An inspector is torn between her conviction of there being a need to reconstruct a factory, and a love interest who asks of her not to do that in order for him to further his career.

The last summer of World War II in a Latvian fishing village. Ten-year-old Rita risks her life to care for and provide everything necessary for four prisoners of war rescued by fishermen—a Frenchman, a Russian, and two Latvians—who are hidden in the attic of a school converted into a warehouse by the German army.

The 1930s. Young fisherman Oskars Klava dreams of new nets to help him gain independence from the collector Garoza but he lacks the trust of old fishermen.

Four soldiers of different nationalities serve in small garrison on the territory of post-war Germany.

This dramatized documentary depicts the life and the actions of Fridtjof Nansen; an explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel laureate.

Soviet engineer Viktor Loginov, who came to one of the East as a technical representative of the Minsk Automobile Plant, had to take part in an international rally due to the illness of a professional racer. Among the experienced aces from other countries, Victor was a beginner. Many representatives of foreign firms are interested in losing in the most difficult struggle. This would give an occasion to close the path to the world market for the new Soviet machine. But courage, mutual assistance and self-confidence help Victor overcome all stages of the most difficult path, where the danger came from both nature and people.

After becoming a teacher, Janis Lazdan returns to his native village in Latgale. In Novie Gudani, he sees black cassocks everywhere. Nuns sit at the bedside of his sick mother. The girl he loves, Lienite, is dressed in the black habit of a novice. Anton, Janis' childhood friend, has become a priest. A struggle begins between Janis and Anton, a subtle psychologist, over Andris, a sickly boy who is extremely impressionable and gifted. Janis understands that the power of the church lies in the indifference of non-believers. He believes in his own strength and love for his loved ones.

The plot centers on the people who began to form underground groups from the very first days of the occupation of Minsk: oil engineer Isa Kazinets, soldier Ivan Kabushkin, student journalist Vladimir Omelianuk, medical professor Yevgeny Klumov, party and Soviet worker Sergey Blagorazumov, and others. Their main weapon was their hatred of the occupiers. Soon, the underground fighters managed to establish contact with the partisans, and they began to plan joint operations.

Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German society and begin to work actively. At the end of the war, during the bombing of Berlin, fate separates them, but then they will meet in the new Germany and continue their work.

The film is about the life of Dmitry Cantemir and the Moldovan people from November 1710 to July 1711. Turkish troops are preparing for war with Russia. The Sultan entrusted him with the throne of Moldavia. Cantemir secretly established ties with Peter I and concluded a military-political agreement with him, according to which Russia took Moldova under its protectorate, pledged to help expel the Turks and restore the former borders of the Moldovan state.

For some time now, life in the family of Kozma Josan, the chairman of a collective farm in one of the Moldovan villages, has not been going well. In response to the indifference of his wife, Domnica, the Goat fell in love with Olga, a fellow villager, who reciprocated his feelings. But their happiness is like wormwood, bitter: everywhere they are haunted by Domnica's heavy gaze, in which anxiety and pain are frozen.

A film about the Belarusian publisher and educator Francis (Georgy) Skaryna, who lived in the first half of the 16th century, the founder of the first Belarusian printing house in Vilnius and the author of fundamental research in the field of linguistics.

Summer, 1940. Foreseeing the collapse of the Ulmanis regime, the owner of a ship sailing off the coast of Latvia decides to flee the country. Subsequently, the sailors learn about the establishment of Soviet power in their homeland, and the ship changes course...

The dramatic fates of the Līdumu, Tauriņu, and Pacepļu families from the 1920s to the 1950s. The conflict between the Līdumu and Tauriņu dynasties as a class struggle, ending with the victory of the Līdumu family.

Young girl is looking for the rare red agate which she believes will cure her grandfather.

A story about a Soviet reporter Pyotr Gromov who lives and works in Washinton, DC.