Juris Žagars

Juris Žagars

Born: January 26, 1961
in Riga, Latvia

Movies for Juris Žagars...

Troubled Minds
Title: Troubled Minds
Released: November 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Brothers Robert and Martin are a month away from their largest art exhibition. To get creative juices flowing, Martin locks himself in a black cube. Once out, brothers fall into a wild rollercoaster of events existing on the very edge of the chaos, examining the thin line between the artist’s creativity and mental troubles.
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Title: Lost Without Trace
Released: October 29, 2020
Type: TV
Anna and Victoria left their homes at 8 a.m. And never came back. An investigator from Saint Petersburg arrived to a small Latvian town in an attempt to find the connection between the two missing women.
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Žagari
Title: Žagari
Character: Self
Released: October 16, 2019
Type: Movie
'Žagari' traces the lives of Andrejs and Juris Žagars, brothers from the city of Cēsis, who both became distinguished in the arts as actors and administrators of art institutions, while both also found success as entrepreneurs. The original plan of the filmmakers was to show two strong personalities with their characteristic relationship and rivalries. However, fate intervened during the filming process, transforming the result into a powerful and touching portrait of brotherly love and the importance of family ties.
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The Pagan King
Title: The Pagan King
Character: Traidenis
Released: January 17, 2018
Type: Movie
Northern Europe. 13th century. Last pagan settlement near the Baltic Sea. The evil and cynical warrior crusader Max von Buxhoveden is trying to destroy the pagan beliefs of the people by spreading lies and fostering dissent. Old king of the last free pagan lands is on his deathbed and without an heir to take his place. Max wants to take over the throne and reign over old king’s tribe. Unexpectedly, with his dying breath the King passes on his ring to his nephew Namejs. The youngster, who grew up amongst pagan priests and studied ancient wisdoms, now has to defend his people. Will he be able to unravel the secret of the Ring and gain its power?
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Johan Falk: From the Ashes into the Fire
Title: Johan Falk: From the Ashes into the Fire
Character: Edgars
Released: June 29, 2015
Type: Movie
Falk is blackmailed into smuggling a truckload of guns from Latvia.
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Then It's Hi! Hi! Hee!
Title: Then It's Hi! Hi! Hee!
Released: March 5, 2014
Type: Movie
The elderly nursing home residents for years feel worthless and troublesome. But then a crazy idea strikes them - to waive their pensions and enroll in the army as volunteers thus saving the country from financial crisis and spending excitingly the last years of their lives. The oldies are wise enough at organizing this event and now real adventures begin.
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The Nevsky Prospect
Title: The Nevsky Prospect
Character: Renko
Released: January 26, 2012
Type: Movie
After photo journalist Melissa Maldari's father disappears after a meeting with a Russian mail order bride she travels to Russia to find the truth about her father and the underworld of human trafficking.
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The Only Picture
Title: The Only Picture
Released: November 14, 2009
Type: Movie
Historical reenactment of preparation in Nov. 17 and proclamation of independence of Latvia in Nov. 18, 1918 and in epicenter is only taken photograph of this historical moment.
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Little Robbers
Title: Little Robbers
Character: Goochi the Bank Guard
Released: March 26, 2009
Type: Movie
Can you honestly swear that at least once in your life you have not thought that robbing a bank is a good idea? Especially, if you're five years old and that bank has just thrown your parents out of a brand new apartment, because your father has lost his job. Five year old Robby is no Zorro, but he'd like to be. His seven year old sister Louise thinks he's too childish, but can't resist the game of robbing a bank. Together they can pull off just about anything. Getting away with it is the hard part.
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Nude
Title: Nude
Released: December 18, 2008
Type: Movie
An awkward young man adopts the online MYSPACE identity of his friend, a popular journalist, in order to attract a woman who he otherwise feels would be out of reach. He succeeds and after corresponding with the girl for some time, he travels to meet her, all the while impersonating his friend (whose picture is rarely published with his articles). Surprisingly, when he finds her, she is living with her boyfriend and claims to have no MYSPACE identity at all. It seems the recluse neighbor of the girl has hijacked her online identity also. Intrigue and moral corruption ensue as this case of stolen virtual identity leads to disaster for both the imposters and all those involved.
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Don't Talk About It
Title: Don't Talk About It
Character: Aleksis
Released: August 14, 2007
Type: Movie
Beatrise is drifting in life. She has based her existence on unsuccessful relationships that have collapsed, like sand castles, one after the other. Forced to re-evaluate things, she realizes that she can only achieve harmony by learning to rely on herself, and not on illusory feelings or words.
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The Dark Deer
Title: The Dark Deer
Released: July 11, 2007
Type: Movie
17-year-old Ria is a sensitive and mysterious young woman. Ria's mother has suffered in a car accident and has stopped speaking since her daughter's birth. The family grows deer for sale, yet, the business is not successful. To earn some money, her father decides to organize a hunt.
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Roses of Autumn
Title: Roses of Autumn
Released: March 31, 2004
Type: Movie
The film is about a middle-aged couple experiencing a midlife crisis. The husband and wife are tired of life together and start to forget the love they once shared in their youth.
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The Python
Title: The Python
Released: September 1, 2003
Type: Movie
An absurdist farce centering around a school in post-Soviet Latvia. After a rather disgusting prank (someone defecates in the school attic), the tyrannical headmistress deems that no one can leave until the culprit is caught. When the photographer's pet python escapes, havok breaks loose.
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Reply with Photo
Title: Reply with Photo
Character: Jurist
Released: August 20, 1999
Type: Movie
The shy scientist Lars decides to publish a small ad in order to find a girlfriend. From the 218 replies, he selects Brigita, an attractive Latvian woman and invites her to Stockholm. But what actually happens after Brigita's arrival is far more complicated than Lars could ever have imagined.
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Dragon's Egg
Title: Dragon's Egg
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
The film’s protagonists Ieva and Apollon are former workers of a collective farm. Once they loved each other passionately. Yet it was in "another" life, the time of kolkholzs. The attempt to revive that love ends up in a tragedy. However the story goes on. The events around their burial are so intriguing that mass media raise them to the level of the United Nations.
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Duplets
Title: Duplets
Released: July 12, 1992
Type: Movie
Ecological criminal intrigue during the international billiard tournament in Riga.
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Title: Zītaru dzimta
Character: Ingus
Released: May 21, 1990
Type: TV
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The Zitars
Title: The Zitars
Character: Ingus
Released: July 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Tragedy of the Zitars family based on the novel by Vilis Lacis.
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Zīlēšana uz jēra lāpstiņas
Title: Zīlēšana uz jēra lāpstiņas
Released: April 2, 1989
Type: Movie
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Dear Life
Title: Dear Life
Released: January 4, 1989
Type: Movie
A homage to Krišjānis Barons and his life's work – to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas,thus creating the encyclopaedia of Latvian life, a poetic reflection of the knowledge of life accumulated over the centuries. The film is based on Krišjānis Barons' life during late 1800s and early 1900s – his childhood and youth in Latvia, studies and work in St. Petersburg and other places in Russia, his relationship with his faithful wife Dārta, and the awakening of the Latvian self-awareness.
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The Wild Swans
Title: The Wild Swans
Character: Young King
Released: December 18, 1987
Type: Movie
Once upon a time, a King had eleven sons and one daughter. When his wife, the Queen, died, the King remarried. The new wife and the children's stepmother looks beautiful on the outside, but actually she's an evil witch. She sends the young princess Eliise to live in the village as an ordinary peasant girl and turns all the princes into wild swans. The princes are stuck being swans all day long and only at night can they regain their true form. When Eliise is 15 years old, she learns about the fate of her brothers and now she must overcome the obstacles put in her way by her stepmother in order to release her brothers from the spell.
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Aija
Title: Aija
Character: Jānis
Released: November 16, 1987
Type: Movie
After twelve years in the city Jānis returns to the country and marries his first love - now a widow with three children - Aija. But the happiness is not meant to be because the husband and the wife share different views of life and, ultimately, can't work out their relationships.
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The Double
Title: The Double
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A man sees his picture on a 'Most Wanted' board and after going to police he meets someone who looks suspiciously similar to him.
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Vakara variants
Title: Vakara variants
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A 38-year-old teacher Anna in a small town is longing to have a child. The opportunity arises when she meets a cargo driver who travels through her town. He turns out to be married with a child in another town, so Anna doesn't wish to pursue the relationship, but the man is ready to change the course of his life.