
Girts Jakovlevs
Actor · b. 1940 · Riga, Latvia
Movies19
Movie4.0DramaBased on a stage play of the same name by the one of the biggest names in the history of Latvian literature Rainis, "Put, vejini" tells a story of an unconventional love that blossoms between the handsome, wealthy and impetuous merchant Uldis and the timid, humble and clear-hearted orphan Baiba.
Movie6.0DramaArmīns, a carefree and self-centered young man, suddenly finds his life turned upside down when he becomes responsible for seven-year-old Zigis after the boy’s parents die in a tragic accident.
Dunduriņš
1974 · 1 votes
Movie5.5RomanceDramaDoctor Rūdolfs spends time at his country cottage, and there he meets teacher Laura - a mother of two children whose husband is in prison. Rūdolfs rescues Laura's daughter, Zaiga, who is sick, befriends her son, Maris, and falls in love with Laura, but she desperately struggles with her feelings of responsibility towards her family.
- Movie10.0CrimeDrama
A story about a young girl Olga and her struggles with the Soviet marketing system.
Movie6.9DocumentaryHistoryA documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces.
The Man Who Saved the World
2014 · 60 votes
MovieDramaAn 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.
- MovieHistoryMystery
The film tells of faithful devotion to spiritual ideals. It is based on Riga St. Anna Stocken's Life Story of the Cistercian Monastery of Mary Magdalene.
Anna
1996
Movie9.0Drama
MovieDramaTV MovieScreenwriter Vasiliev became interested in the fate of Lapinsh, the former captain of the supertrawler "Malachite." Lapinsh was removed from his position and stripped of his captain’s license after an accident that occurred more than six months ago—the supertrawler "Malachite" ran aground. The case was examined by the court. In search of the truth, Vasiliev followed the trail of these dramatic events...
Movie6.2DramaAdventureA group of men go under-ice fishing, but find themselves trapped on a piece of ice, that has broken off. As they are drifting through the sea, the tension between them rises.
Movie10.0DramaFeature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov.
Mainai
1979 · 1 votes
- MovieFamily
The summer internship of ninth-grade students from Riga at a mechanical plant.
Movie1.0DramaLatvia, 1980s. While striving for achievements in the Soviet kolhoz competition, people have forgotten to take care of their surroundings and their loved ones. The Latvian countryside is overwhelmed by alcoholism, and the chairman of the kolhoz is keeping the newly built culture hub locked up so that public would not "spoil it". Vitolds, the new secretary of the Young Communist League is ready to combat all the negative issues. However, it's important to do everything with moderation, as otherwise one may fall from one side of a ditch to another.
Movie7.0MysteryCrimeHead of the CID and his colleagues are investigating a serious crime but the main witnesses are of no help.
Movie5.3AdventureComedyA young boy finds a watch with an engraving in Spanish saying that the watch belongs to Captain Enrico, and adventures begin...
Movie8.0WarDramaThe head of the border detachment Gamayun arrives in Turkestan to destroy the last large formation of the Basmachi - the gang of Mumin Bek.
Movie4.4AdventureComedyThe action takes place in Kurzeme in the 17th century. The Duke of Courland, the King of Poland and the German barons want power over the Latvian people. Farmers are the biggest victims of this power struggle.
Movie6.0DramaHistorySteponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.
MovieMusicDramaLovers Edgar and Lucia dream of happiness, but Lucia's brother Henry is preparing her marriage to another man. He forces his sister to sign a marriage contract and enter into an open fight with Edgar.
Series7
TV8.5Action & AdventureDramaA miniseries about the Cheka's destruction of an underground organization led by Boris Savinkov.
TVComedyA miniseries about the events during one summer in a family of a writer who are unexpectedly granted a remote estate with all its unusual inhabitants, and who has to decide what to do with the dilapidated estate. Exciting and comic events in eight episodes in which the future writer Anšlavs Eglītis together with his brother Vidvuds, father Viktors and his wife Hilda Vīka, begin the restoration of the estate, at the same time opening a boarding house, which becomes the intersection and summer stage of the neighbourhood, ghosts of the past, visitors from the city and Latvian intellectuals in Latvia in the 1920s.
TV7.5DramaWar & PoliticsThe action of the film takes place in Latvia and spans the period from 1939 to the early 1970s. The events that occurred in the country had various effects on the fates of the characters. But throughout it all, love guided them — it scattered and gathered, made them suffer terribly, and made them the happiest people in the world...
TV10.0DramaThe second half of the 19th century. The arrival of land surveyors in a Latvian village for the redistribution of land provoked a scandal...
TVDramaA Partisan Saga. Winter of 1942. Ivan Voronetsky, acting as a representative of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Belarus, is assigned a special mission — along with his team of five.
TV7.8MysteryCrime
TVDramaA story about a Soviet reporter Pyotr Gromov who lives and works in Washinton, DC.