Regīna Razuma

Regīna Razuma

Born: September 22, 1951
Died: May 14, 2023
in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]

Movies for Regīna Razuma...

The Good Neighbor
Title: The Good Neighbor
Character: Mrs. Petrova
Released: June 17, 2022
Type: Movie
A nightmarish evening unfolds for David, a former New York Times journalist, when he and his strange new neighbor Robert, accidentally hit a girl on her bike. Buzzed and disoriented, David lets Robert convince him to flee the scene and leave the girl for dead, in order to protect his career. Robert shows no remorse, and in the name of friendship he does unspeakable things to protect the secret. Now that the police are full-on hunting for the hit-and-run killer, things begin to spiral out of control when David’s local newspaper sends him to cover the story where he meets the deceased girl’s sister Vanessa. Despite the circumstances, and her deep desire to find her sister’s killer, the two immediately have a romantic connection, which surprises and haunts David, while pushing Robert to take brutal steps to keep his new friend to himself.
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Title: Archie & Nellie, or How to Improve the Quality of Your Life and Live up to 100 Years
Character: Nellija
Released: December 27, 2021
Type: TV
A comedy in six series about two lonely seniors, Archie and Nellie, who try to keep finding new challenges and pleasures in life.
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Title: Agency
Released: November 27, 2020
Type: TV
A Latvian series shot by the team at Jaunais Rīgas Teātris / New Riga Theatre over the course of summer 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. It's a story about a world that once again changes rapidly. About the belief that everything on this planet is subject to manipulation. The series centers around an advertising agency - a classic office where professionalism mixes with boredom, romance and an existential tiredness.
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My Favorite War
Title: My Favorite War
Character: Character Voice (voice)
Released: September 25, 2020
Type: Movie
Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the totalitarian boot of the Soviets and the ominous shadow of the many menaces and horrors of the Cold War.
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Still River
Title: Still River
Character: Amelia
Released: March 21, 2019
Type: Movie
A Greek couple, Anna (Katia Goulioni) and Petros (Andreas Konstantinou), have recently moved to a small industrial town in Siberia. It’s a long process to adapt, especially for Anna, since Petros is quite occupied with his job. That will cause a conflict between them and inevitably the couple is distanced. Everything is escalated as for the past period there is no sexual intercourse between them. This slow-paced decay is intensified when an unexpected event occurs, changing everything between them. Balancing between trust and disbelief the haunting suspense evolves.
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Homo Novus
Title: Homo Novus
Character: Melmeņa kundze
Released: September 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Riga in the 30s. Wild bohemian lifestyle is the name of the game for every artist worth his salt. A young man from the countryside, poor but ambitious, arrives in the capital, where he hopes to make his mark in the artistic circles. What follows is a string of events, fraught with confusion and misunderstanding, hilarious and heart-warming at the same time.
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Happy Birthday, Sofka!
Title: Happy Birthday, Sofka!
Released: September 1, 2009
Type: Movie
It's Sofka's birthday and she gets a lamp which is the beginning of her dream. But there's a misunderstanding and someone takes Sofka’s lamp away. Because of a friend’s principles of justice, Sofka winds up in a criminal situation.
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Nazis and Blondes
Title: Nazis and Blondes
Character: Self
Released: May 9, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Amateur
Title: Amateur
Released: April 10, 2008
Type: Movie
For Victor, a bright but bored journalism student, the summer comes with bad news – his girlfriend Yvette is leaving for art school in Amsterdam. Victor desperately wants to go with her to live the bohemian life, but he has just three months to raise some money. He turns to a dangerous business to fulfil his dream
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Bitter Wine
Title: Bitter Wine
Character: Regina
Released: July 11, 2007
Type: Movie
Donats is a modern-day Don Juan juggling the various women in his life seemingly without any consequences, until he falls in love with Agnese. Her husband, Ralfs, turns out to be a formidable opponent.
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I'm In Love With Your Daughter!
Title: I'm In Love With Your Daughter!
Character: Lelde
Released: May 6, 2004
Type: Movie
A young guy from impoverished family moves to the big city and by unlikely chance falls in love with a girl who has a wealthy father. When planning their wedding, he asks his father-in-law for a significant amount of money and decides to keep a part of it for himself. To have the wedding on the cheap, he hires inexperienced wedding organizers and asks them to make it look as posh as possible for the low cost. His plan ultimately backfires when the organizers overdo it.
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Leaving by the way
Title: Leaving by the way
Released: November 14, 2001
Type: Movie
A tale about a nine-year old boy's relationship with the world around him, shot in one of Latvia's poorest and most beautiful regions - Latgale
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The Stumble
Title: The Stumble
Released: November 13, 2001
Type: Movie
Late in a winter evening an amateur walker with his pals takes a short cut through a spooky cemetery. Everything would be fine except he stumbles. He wakes up in strange, haunted place, where time and space have lost the boundaries.
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Wedding
Title: Wedding
Released: December 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Wedding rituals and a love triangle.
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Happy Landing
Title: Happy Landing
Character: Regina
Released: November 11, 1999
Type: Movie
Three film segments.
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The Courage to Kill
Title: The Courage to Kill
Character: Sirsnina
Released: August 16, 1993
Type: Movie
Erik lives by night. He works in a nightclub and occasionally dresses up as a woman to rob rich clients. One day Erik's father arrives uninvited. It's a surprise visit that brings out memories of complicated childhood.
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The Cage
Title: The Cage
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Edmunds Berzs is an architect who has achieved a comfortable life, but this causes him unease, so he decides to go to the country house where his mother lives. There he wakes up to find himself locked in a cage in the middle of the forest. Edmunds, paradoxically, finds the tranquility he was looking for.
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Tapers
Title: Tapers
Released: January 7, 1991
Type: Movie
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Distraction for the Soul
Title: Distraction for the Soul
Character: Strepetov's Wife
Released: August 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by same name by Vladimir Makanin. A cabinetmaker falls in love with a poetess who is courted by a university professor. The cabinetmaker has a wife and two high school sons. He is confronted with a difficult choice between family and beloved woman...
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Do Not Leave...
Title: Do Not Leave...
Character: Ottilija
Released: December 6, 1989
Type: Movie
A fairytale about the Princess, the Musician, the Chancellor and a blue rose which forces everyone to tell the truth.
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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 Coincidence of Circumstance
Title: The Coincidence of Circumstance
Released: February 15, 1988
Type: Movie
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Last Reportage
Title: Last Reportage
Character: Birgit
Released: November 26, 1986
Type: Movie
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Unfamiliar Case
Title: Unfamiliar Case
Released: December 8, 1985
Type: Movie
A young girl is looking for her long lost father while visiting Riga during winter vacations.
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The Gang
Title: The Gang
Character: Eloise
Released: December 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Paul Madvig is a businessman in an American town in the 1920s, doing everything to maintain his power. He plans to marry Janet, the daughter of senator Ralph Henry who must be re-elected in order to ensure Paul's position. Paul is sure of himself and treats his competitor Shad O'Rory, who is involved in the gambling business, with arrogance. Then the senator's son is murdered. It is rumoured that Paul is behind the murder. Private detective Ned Beaumont, an old friend of Paul's, starts to investigate the case. Based on the novel "The Glass Key" by Dashiell Hammett.
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Lurich
Title: Lurich
Character: Anna
Released: June 2, 1984
Type: Movie
Georg Lurich was a world-famous Estonian professional wrestler in the early 1900-s who became a legend already in his lifetime. He was called not only the world's best technique-wrestler but he was also a sports-philosopher, health and temperance activist, an efficient sports manager, a talent in acting, writing and chess, a "world's citizen" who spoke more than ten languages and an athlete with enormous popularity. At least 14 wrestling clubs in Europe and USA carried his name. This film is an unpretentious attempt to recall that unique man, the first world-famous Estonian.
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Requiem
Title: Requiem
Released: May 24, 1984
Type: Movie
When the frontline extends over Estonia in the summer of 1944, the pilots of a shot down Soviet airplane come to ask for help at a farm where organ builder Jaan lives with his kids.
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Fairy tales of the old magician
Title: Fairy tales of the old magician
Character: Fairy Kind Heart
Released: January 2, 1984
Type: Movie
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Rocky Road
Title: Rocky Road
Character: Alise
Released: January 3, 1983
Type: Movie
Based on the popular novel of the same title by Vilis Lācis. Latvia, the 1930s. Roberts Līviņš, the son of a dockhand, becomes an architect by his own efforts, thanks to arduous work and talent. But in his relationship with Līvija, the daughter of the rich entrepreneur Ulpe, Roberts realizes that the high society might look down on his common origins as well as his sister Alise, a hairdresser, and her boyfriend Ēriks, an opportunist and former boxer.
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Title: Wait for the «John Grafton»
Character: Housewife
Released: September 24, 1981
Type: TV
At the beginning of the summer of 1905, representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Krasilnikov and Elkonen turned to Captain Zhanis Trautman, a Latvian political emigrant living on the outskirts of London, with a proposal to lead a steamer with a cargo of weapons to the shores of Russia. Having recruited a team of old and tried comrades, Trautman changes the crew of an English cargo ship bought by the front men. In the course of the squabble that arose on this occasion, a sailor of the old crew, David Blake, was stabbed. The wounded Blake and the veterinarian Gruber, who accompanied the cargo of anthrax drugs, are forced to leave on board. On the high seas, weapons and explosives were loaded on board. The steamer headed for the Oresund Strait, where a messenger was to meet him.
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The Right to Shot
Title: The Right to Shot
Character: Interrogator
Released: June 6, 1981
Type: Movie
Adventurous movie about a fight between Soviet border patrol and foreign spy ship.
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To Remember or to Forget
Title: To Remember or to Forget
Released: January 3, 1981
Type: Movie
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Unfinnished Dinner
Title: Unfinnished Dinner
Released: September 8, 1979
Type: Movie
In one of the prestigious restaurants during banquet speech a large company's director Palmgren is killed in front of dozen guests . Case is lead by Criminal Investigation Officer Pierre Monson with his assistants. Suspect can be easily intercepted if only miserably lazy police officers Kvant and Kristiansson instead of catching criminal would not argue with father of little 3 years old boy who yelled: "Police, police, mashed potatoes" when they ate hot dogs. Help comes from capital in form of the famous Commissioner Martin Beck, who discovers that murdered industrialist was involved in illegal activities and had many enemies. The case is linked as well with government's "higher ends".
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Mainai
Title: Mainai
Character: Stase
Released: February 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov.
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The Exchange
Title: The Exchange
Character: Стасе
Released: July 31, 1977
Type: Movie
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The Arrows of Robin Hood
Title: The Arrows of Robin Hood
Character: Mary[Maria]
Released: June 14, 1975
Type: Movie
With a traditional archery contest, the winner wins a silver arrow with gold lace and gold feathers. Even Robin Hood, although unrecognizable, takes part in this competition. As more and more participants are losing and Robin Hood eventually wins the award, his masquerade reveals. For none of the participants is as handy with a bow and an arrow like Robin Hood. With the help of his coolness and his friends Robin Hood may escape the dangerous situation.
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Maritime Climates
Title: Maritime Climates
Character: Daina
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power hadn’t got worried by the rushes they saw, which lead them to terminate the production. In 1992, Rolands Kalniņš made this edit of the remaining material – an elegy to lost hopes and illusions.
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Ceplis
Title: Ceplis
Character: Austra
Released: January 3, 1972
Type: Movie
Latvia in the 1920s. The enterprising Edgars Ceplis establishes a company to produce bricks from Latvian clay for export. Many are involved in his project, hoping for the huge profits the venture promises. Ceplis soon becomes infatuated with his office typist Austra Zīle and starts neglecting the business...
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The White Helicopter
Title: The White Helicopter
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The film is based on true events leading up to the historical 2013 resignation of Benedict XVI. After succeeding John Paul II, and serving as Pope for eight years, Joseph Ratzinger shocked the world by becoming the first Pope to voluntarily resign in over 600 years. In light of moral and ethical upheavals in the Catholic Church, and the unique challenges of the 21st century, Ratzinger's cited reason of declining health raises more questions than it answers.