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Pansion in the Mansion
A 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.
Long Road in the Dunes
The 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...
Sindikat-2
A miniseries about the Cheka's destruction of an underground organization led by Boris Savinkov.
Washington Correspondent
A story about a Soviet reporter Pyotr Gromov who lives and works in Washinton, DC.
Time Chose Us
A 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.
Death Under Sail
Successful oncologist Dr. Roger Mills invites a group of friends aboard his yacht for a relaxing getaway. Days later, on a bright sunny morning, he is found dead, shot through the heart. As suspicion falls on those closest to him, local police sergeant Beryl and Mr. Finbow begin a murder investigation that will expose the secrets hidden beneath the carefree voyage.
Nazis and Blondes
Veteran actors from the 3 Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - gather at a castle in Latvia to receive awards for their roles as Nazi villains in propagandist Soviet war films. They reminisce about the films that made them famous throughout the USSR, but also stigmatized the Baltic countries as Nazi sympathizers in the eyes of many Russians - a misconception that is nowadays exploited by the Russian media, desperate to label the Baltic countries as a fascist haven.
Blow, Wind!
Based 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.
The Times of the Surveyors
The second half of the 19th century. The arrival of land surveyors in a Latvian village for the redistribution of land provoked a scandal...
The Man Who Saved the World
A documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces.
Anna
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.
To Remember or to Forget
Nina and Nikolai Jansoni seem to have everything: successful careers, a comfortable home and a car. When Nina gives birth despite doctors’ warnings, a tragic mix-up leads her to believe that her baby has died. Afraid to tell her husband the truth, she accepts another child as her own. When the mistake is eventually uncovered, Nina rejects her biological child, who is taken in by a nurse, Inta. Years later, her dormant maternal feelings awaken, and Nina sets out to reclaim the child she once gave up.
In the Shadow of Death
A 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.
Three Days of Reflection
Head of the CID and his colleagues are investigating a serious crime but the main witnesses are of no help.