Romualds Ancāns

Romualds Ancāns

Born: April 1, 1944
Died: September 15, 2011

Movies for Romualds Ancāns...

Rudolf's Gold
Title: Rudolf's Gold
Character: Rudolfs Rudups
Released: January 15, 2010
Type: Movie
The dawn of the XX century promised Latvians a prosperous and happy future. The nation’s self-esteem had awakened, and farmers were increasingly able to rise above even the estate stewards. Rudups, old soldier of the Kaiser and, with his wealth and pride, a thorn in the Baron’s side, becomes truly uncontrollable when he’s hit by Cupid’s arrow. The old boy is willing to do anything for simple maid Emily. But the girl loves his godson Karlis. It’s all a mix of riches, of cheating, and the Baron’s lawlessness. The fight of two relatives for Emily’s heart changes the fate of both men and the maid, so she can see sunshine through the tears.
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Defenders of Riga
Title: Defenders of Riga
Character: Rüdiger von der Goltz
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.
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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 Mills of Fate
Title: The Mills of Fate
Character: Vincents
Released: November 21, 1997
Type: Movie
Melodramatic movie with colorful elements of comedy and songs that have deeply rooted in the Latvian folklore. Love triangle - terminally ill university teacher, blind girl and young bard. In the background - wild arrival of the capitalism, political conflicts, city life and beautiful nature of Latvia. In the end love conquers everything though not everybody lives to witness that.
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The Dogs of Riga
Title: The Dogs of Riga
Released: November 9, 1995
Type: Movie
A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to help but when he returns to his home country he is mysteriously murdered. Kurt flies to Riga to find out why and is drawn into complex conspiracy.
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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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Spider
Title: Spider
Character: Old Man
Released: April 17, 1992
Type: Movie
A young woman agrees to model for an artist as Virgin Mary. His strange influence triggers her repressed sexual urges causing her to have delusions and nightmares about spiders and other grotesque imagery.
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The Child of Man
Title: The Child of Man
Released: January 17, 1992
Type: Movie
A six-year-old boy plots to stop his "sweetheart", a grown-up woman in his pre-World War II Latvian village, from marrying.
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Perfect Crime
Title: Perfect Crime
Character: Lance Herero - wealthy industrialist
Released: December 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The manufacturer lance Gerero on the basis of irrefutable evidence accused of killing a girl. However, the young lawyer still hopes to expose the criminals involved in the fabrication of false evidence, saving their customers from competitors…
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Carmen Horrendum
Title: Carmen Horrendum
Released: October 12, 1989
Type: Movie
At the center of it is the fate of young women in the war and in the harsh post-war times, when witch-hunting of "enemies of the people" was a common occurrence. The brutal war is mutilating both the girls' bodies and their souls. Location: military hospital. It is just a backdrop to which the character rattles, the intrigue, the human relationships. The pathos of the tape conveys the idea that a woman is and remains a woman in all circumstances and situations. During the tumultuous years of war, they were also overwhelmed by true love, mutual understanding, trust and tenderness.
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The Zitars
Title: The Zitars
Released: July 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Tragedy of the Zitars family based on the novel by Vilis Lacis.
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Cargo 300
Title: Cargo 300
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Afghanistan. 1986. From the border towards Kabul on a mountain road moving column of Soviet military armored vehicles. From the air it is covered by combat helicopters. The way of the column lies through the only bridge in these parts. This is well aware of the Afghan Mujahideen and under the leadership of American instructors are preparing an operation to capture the bridge and destroy the Soviet equipment blocked in this case. At this time, located in the mountains of the Soviet geological expedition undergoes a night attack spooks. The Afghan guards scatter and the geologists decide to go to Kabul. On the way, they are informed about the approaching military column, from which they will be much safer to get to Kabul. They do not know only one that has long enabled the Mujahideen in the operation to capture the bridge.
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Road to Hell
Title: Road to Hell
Character: Nikolay Goncharov
Released: April 3, 1988
Type: Movie
Police detectives are investigating a pharmaceutical institute for possible drugs manufacturing and distribution.
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Otryad spetsyalnogo naznacheniya
Title: Otryad spetsyalnogo naznacheniya
Character: Ульрих фон Ортель
Released: December 20, 1987
Type: Movie
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Карусель на базарной площади
Title: Карусель на базарной площади
Released: April 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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Title: Battle for Moscow
Character: майор Гаврилов
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: TV
The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet multi-part war narrative, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The battle was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War.
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Title: Документ Р
Released: August 7, 1985
Type: TV
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My Friend Socrates
Title: My Friend Socrates
Released: December 29, 1984
Type: Movie
A story about ten years old Raymond who wants to learn how to drive a car.
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The Door That's Open To You
Title: The Door That's Open To You
Character: Kaspars
Released: November 26, 1984
Type: Movie
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Title: Mirage
Character: Policeman
Released: August 10, 1983
Type: TV
Tragic events in the lives of five people after they have stolen a car with one million dollars in the safe. This is the job they have all been waiting for. The job that will set them up for life. A million dollars split five ways, who wouldn't be interested? The only catch is that it's the very definition of impossible...or is it? Armed with a brilliant plan, the four men and one woman think they can crack it. But as tensions in the group begin to mount and things start to go wrong, the million dollars feels more out of reach than ever. Even though it is right with them...
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Incident at Map-Grid 36-80
Title: Incident at Map-Grid 36-80
Released: December 7, 1982
Type: Movie
Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.
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My Family
Title: My Family
Released: July 3, 1982
Type: Movie
After his family was introduced on a national TV as a "perfect family", the son Robert has a hard time confronting all the lies related to this accidental fame.
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The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe
Title: The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe
Character: Richard the Lion-Hearted
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the nobility in England was overwhelmingly Norman. It follows the Saxon protagonist, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who is out of favor with his father for his allegiance to the Norman king Richard the Lionheart. The story is set in 1194, after the failure of the Third Crusade, when many of the Crusaders were still returning to their homes in Europe. King Richard, who had been captured by Leopold of Austria on his return journey to England, was believed to still be in captivity.
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Born by the Storm
Title: Born by the Storm
Character: Edvard
Released: October 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Ukraine, 1918. Underground worker Sigismund Raevsky organizes a Komsomol cell and gathers young people to fight against the German invaders...
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Title: Wait for the «John Grafton»
Character: Maksim Maksimovich
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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A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer's Eve
Title: A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer's Eve
Character: Jāzeps
Released: July 12, 1981
Type: Movie
When old auntie Mirta succeeds in a lottery and wins a car, which she cannot use herself, different family members are suddenly there to 'be helpful' in favor to get the car after aunties' death, not to mention, they never have come before to help her. The funny rivalry between two parts of family, a foolish jealousy to the near living peasants' family, which had always non-selfishly been there for auntie, is a caricature of greasy human nature. This is a slight humor of the Soviet life details as well. But aunt Mirta isn't fool, and is still young in her heart until her last minute, that appears in her last will - to whom the car, the limousine in the color of St. John's night goes.
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Brothers Rico
Title: Brothers Rico
Character: Cesare Rico
Released: May 4, 1980
Type: Movie
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Gaidiet
Title: Gaidiet "Džonu Graftonu"
Released: December 25, 1979
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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A Boy
Title: A Boy
Character: tēvs
Released: June 6, 1977
Type: Movie
Latvia, late 19th century. Farm-hand boy Jancis lives on a homestead with his mother, grandfather and grandmother. His world does not reach beyond the horizon, and life progresses according to the seasonal cycle – from winter through spring, summer and autumn to the next St. George's Day when farmhands often had to move to the next farm.
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Under the Upturned Moon
Title: Under the Upturned Moon
Released: December 26, 1976
Type: Movie
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Первое лето
Title: Первое лето
Released: April 6, 1975
Type: Movie