During the Soviet time the film “Four White Shirts” was known under the different, imposed by censorship, title “Breathe deeply …” It is a movie – phenomenon, because despite the fact that under the Soviets it was shelved and reached wider audience only twenty years after its completion >..
This film is about a small world found in the heart of Riga, and right in the middle of the Daugava River – Zaķusala (Rabbit Island) – a place that has preserved an ambience of another century. Janka lives on Zaķusala >..
It is Riga of the 1930ies. The educated but unemployed Olģerts Kurmis – literate in English, French and Latin – supports himself by doing odd jobs for the wealthy Mr. Kalnkāja, who hopes to be elected to Parliament. >..
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Rūdolfs, a city physician, spends his summer in the countryside, which is where he meets Laura – a teacher and mother of two, and whose husband is in prison. Rūdolfs saves the life of Laura’s daughter, Zaiga, makes friends >..
When Jānis Striečs film “A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer’s Eve” came out at the end of 1981, no one had any idea that several decades later it would still be so relevant, even acquiring new generations of fans and becoming eminently quotable! >..
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In terms of social resonance, Vilis Lapenieks’ film The Fisherman’s Son has no equal. The film adaptation of Vilis Lācis’ popular novel was a national blockbuster and created such excitement that at its premiere on 2 January, 1940, the public at the Splendid Palace broke down the theatre’s doors. >..
This film is Jānis Streics’ dedication to Blaumanis – a fantasy peopled by the characters from Skroderdienas in their youth; names have been changed and the time has been shifted to a later date.
National consciousness awoke at the beginning of the 20th century >..
