Jānis Paukštello

Jānis Paukštello

Born: March 26, 1951

Movies for Jānis Paukštello...

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 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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Maximum Headroom
Title: Maximum Headroom
Released: May 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Members of a class of the 1980s hold an annual gathering. All together spend one night remembering the passions and hopes of youth and realising what has been achieved or missed.
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Waterbomb for the Fat Tomcat
Title: Waterbomb for the Fat Tomcat
Character: Vectevs
Released: March 4, 2004
Type: Movie
The two sisters' parents have gone abroad to earn the living, so the girls Marta and Linda needs someone to take care of them. For that they have their dictatorial spinster aunt Una, who desperately wants to get married, and has a sympathy for the jeweler Ivo. Meanwhile, Marta is working hard to get a promised puppy, but her plans are ruined, as her aunt feels a strong despise for dogs. So, the relations between the girls and their aunt becomes really tense. Until the perfect plan of the sisters - to help the aunt to get married, to get rid of her.
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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 Mills of Fate
Title: The Mills of Fate
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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Christmas Huddle
Title: Christmas Huddle
Character: father
Released: November 21, 1993
Type: Movie
Ziemmassvetku Jampadracis tells the story of the Cirulisi, a tight-knit family down on their luck, and their trials and tribulations during the Christmas season.
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De Granšānu ģimenes noslēpumi
Title: De Granšānu ģimenes noslēpumi
Released: July 11, 1993
Type: Movie
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The Child of Man
Title: The Child of Man
Character: tēvs
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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The Heiress of Werewolves
Title: The Heiress of Werewolves
Character: Gusts
Released: May 25, 1991
Type: Movie
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It's Easy to Fall Into an Overgrown Ditch
Title: It's Easy to Fall Into an Overgrown Ditch
Character: Vitolds
Released: March 3, 1986
Type: Movie
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Apbraucamais ceļš
Title: Apbraucamais ceļš
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A group of people get cut off from the rest of the world during a snowstorm.
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Soloist Needed
Title: Soloist Needed
Released: July 12, 1984
Type: Movie
Latvian friends are helping to Estonian rock group to participate in the music competition.
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A Shot In The Forest
Title: A Shot In The Forest
Released: November 26, 1983
Type: Movie
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Strange Passions
Title: Strange Passions
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
It is the post-war era on the Latvian border, and the Lithuanian girl Maryte has located her relative, Antanas. Having been a farmhand on a rich farm as well as the lover of the owner's wife, upon his return from the war Antanas hopes to gain as much as he can from the collapse of the old world. The wife's daughter, Ausma, has since grown up and seems much more desirable to Antanas than his former lover. The historical situation makes for a tense atmosphere, because in the nighttime partisans may emerge from the forest, while during the daytime everyone must be careful to follow the new rules of life under Soviet rule.
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Colonel Shaligin's Waiting
Title: Colonel Shaligin's Waiting
Released: August 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Summer 1944, Belarus. A group of Soviet soldiers was tasked with urgently delivering our scout from the German rear across the front line. Of the three attendants, not everyone was able to stay alive and complete the task.
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Forgotten Things
Title: Forgotten Things
Released: January 3, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: Wait for the «John Grafton»
Character: Jean Trautmann
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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Laikmetu griežos
Title: Laikmetu griežos
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A film based on novels by Latvian writer Andrejs Upīts tells a story about Latvian peasants around the 16th/17th century when they were under the role of several other countries.
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Gaidiet
Title: Gaidiet "Džonu Graftonu"
Character: Trautmanis
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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Trīs minūšu lidojums
Title: Trīs minūšu lidojums
Character: Oļģerts
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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The Grand New Year's Night
Title: The Grand New Year's Night
Released: November 30, 1978
Type: Movie
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Death Under Sail
Title: Death Under Sail
Released: June 6, 1976
Type: Movie
Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his heart, all six fall under suspicion.
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Title: Смерть под парусом
Character: Philip Wade
Released: April 9, 1976
Type: TV
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My Frivolous Friend
Title: My Frivolous Friend
Character: Arvīds
Released: November 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Arvīds Lasmanis can't hold any job for long because he is not ready to tolerate deceit and slapdash work. He still has to feed his family, buy chance he finds a well-paid job as a gravedigger. A friend helps Arvīds to find a place in a construction team, but other workers don't approve of Arvīds' high principles. His wife accuses him of not knowing how to make money, the family lives crammed in one room of a shared flat. The Soviet absurd comedy tells a story about a man who, while at odds with the system, won't lose his conscience and his true self, even if it means saying no to wealth and comfort.
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Keys of the City
Title: Keys of the City
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Austra arrives to a small Latvian town to work for a state institution and faces disinterest and carelessness from her colleagues. Her other troubles include a difficult relationship with her daughter and a sudden falling in love.