Valentin Novopolskij

Valentin Novopolskij

Movies for Valentin Novopolskij...

Under the Grey Sky
Title: Under the Grey Sky
Character: Ilya
Released: June 7, 2024
Type: Movie
Based on true events, a Belarusian journalist is arrested after covertly livestreaming brutal government crackdowns on peaceful demonstrators following rigged elections. Her husband, refusing to leave her, also faces recriminations from a regime determined to break them both.
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Title: Soviet Jeans
Released: February 26, 2024
Type: TV
In the late 1970s – at a time when the fiercest propaganda against Western culture was being waged throughout the USSR – an ardent rock and roll fan sets up a successful and illegal underground jeans factory in a Latvian psychiatric hospital.
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The Jew
Title: The Jew
Released: June 30, 2023
Type: Movie
The USSR, 1946. The main character, Mikhail Krasnitsky, travels to different cities across the country. When he arrives, he commits cold-blooded murders, for reasons that are not yet evident. The Secret Service manages to connect all of these crimes and figure out that all of the victims were former death camp inmates. However, the murderer’s motive still remains unclear.
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Parade
Title: Parade
Character: Ignas
Released: March 3, 2023
Type: Movie
Miglė, who married when she was very young, has for 26 years been divorced from her ex-husband who one day calls her and asks for a favour. He has found that it would be a good time to get married again after the death of his mother. But there is a small problem: their divorce is valid only in the eyes of the law, because a Catholic marriage cannot be divorced. It can, however, be annulled. All that needs to be done is to complete an application and give the “Catholic court” a good reason. But she does not know in what kind of absurd situations she is about to find herself in.
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Title: Troll Farm
Character: Tomas
Released: January 15, 2023
Type: TV
After being wrongly fired from Melta Cosmetics, an international beauty brand, Ana is determined to clear out her name. While chicken raising works as a cover, Ana runs underground business - Troll Farm, made to destroy shady corporations with a fake personality - Judith. The Farm sucks all Ana’s savings and time, so her beloved daughter keeps facing an empty chair at dance competitions. Throughout the season, Ana will get dirt under her nails - blinded by desire for revenge, she is turning into the same manipulative beast she’s fighting.
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The 9th Step
Title: The 9th Step
Character: Linas
Released: November 14, 2022
Type: Movie
A father, who unexpectedly gets custody of his teenage daughter, has a second chance to gain back her trust and rebuild their relationship.
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Title: With My Own Eyes
Character: Petras
Released: November 9, 2022
Type: TV
A large family reside in different Ukrainian cities. Mother and Father live in the Kiev suburbs, the oldest daughter in Mariupol, the second of the three in Vinnitsa, and the youngest in Chernigov. The son went on a work trip to Donetsk. Exactly in these cities on 24 February, they were caught by the war. All, by one way or another, find themselves in a bunker or shelter. The only means of communication is phone and video calls.
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Title: Crime Solving For Beginners
Released: April 22, 2022
Type: TV
On May 4th 1994, the 4th anniversary of Latvia’s splintering from the Soviet Union, rookie police investigator Aldis Karklins is tasked with solving the murder of Natalia Nolle, an influental behind-the-scenes political figure. The trail leads the 23-year-old Aldis in to the underbelly of organized crime and KGB conspiracies that outlive the Soviot Union. A miniseries in seven episodes, based on the novel "Don't Call Me, Don't Look for me! Life of Soviet Secret Agent" (Meklējiet sievieti) by acclaimed Latvian crime fiction writer Andris Kolbergs.
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Forest
Title: Forest
Released: October 15, 2021
Type: Movie
It’s November and “the planets realigned a week ago,” says a police inspector in complete astrological earnestness. A desperate woman has turned to the police asking for help to find her daughter, Anna. She is 21 years old, is getting good grades at the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University and has been missing for three days. On the same day, a man arrives at the police station because he has found a phone in the forest while walking his dog. It turns out that the smartphone with the Instagram account “Muha_v_komnate” belongs to the missing girl. The stories that Anna’s family members, friends and those close to her tell clash, leading the chief investigator to question whether anyone ever really knew the girl.
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Dawn of War
Title: Dawn of War
Character: Red Army Major Kozlov
Released: October 6, 2020
Type: Movie
A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.
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Sasha Was Here
Title: Sasha Was Here
Character: Tomas
Released: November 22, 2019
Type: Movie
It's a feature-length narrative film about a middle-class couple, that wants to adopt the perfect little girl, but they end up being offered a rebellious 12-year-old boy.
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Oleg
Title: Oleg
Character: Oleg
Released: October 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Oleg, a young Latvian butcher, arrives in Brussels in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory. His experience turns short after being betrayed by a colleague. Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls under the yoke of Andrzej, a Polish criminal.
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Purpurinis rūkas
Title: Purpurinis rūkas
Character: Danila Varsavskij
Released: February 6, 2019
Type: Movie
'Purple Smoke' tells the complex story of Lithuanian Jew Jozef, partisan commander Vlad and their two beloved Janes.
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Owl Mountain
Title: Owl Mountain
Character: Karininkas
Released: February 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Radio Free Europe, BBC, and Voice of America can only rarely get through the Iron Curtain and Soviet mufflers to Lithuania, a country torn by a war between the local resistance movement and the Soviet regime that is forced onto Lithuanian people by bayonets of the Russian army. Everybody who tries to resist the Soviet rule is either terrorized or executed or exiled to Siberia. He is one of the local high-school students who witness the local armed resistance to the Soviet occupation and ultimately decide to join it by taking a gun into their hands. He collects documents and all possible kinds of evidence that prove daunting crimes of the Kremlin. He soon becomes a legend among his peers. To girls, he is John Wayne the Hollywood Icon. Guys see him as an insurmountable obstacle and an invincible rival in matters of love.
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Emilia
Title: Emilia
Character: Darius
Released: February 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Soviet Lithuania in 1972. A young theatre actress is trying to make a difference and tell the forbidden story of repression in a play.
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Winter Thaw
Title: Winter Thaw
Character: Pyotr
Released: November 24, 2016
Type: Movie
In late nineteenth-century Russia, Martin Avdeitch is a humble shoemaker whose life has been characterized by grief. Martin must find the courage to look outside himself and trust in the goodness of God. This BYUtv original holiday special is based on Leo Tolstoy's short story, "Martin the Cobbler," and stars John Rhys-Davies.
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Non-Present Time
Title: Non-Present Time
Character: Vitalis
Released: February 28, 2014
Type: Movie
A young man's confusion in present times. The protagonist is looking for answers to questions that are relevant to many of his peers, coming of age in between a nostalgic socialist childhood and ideas pushed by a young democracy, relentlessly rushing forward.
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Title: Generation War
Character: Commander
Released: March 17, 2013
Type: TV
Five young German friends promise to meet again after WW2 ends, but soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic nightmare.
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Vortex
Title: Vortex
Released: September 4, 2009
Type: Movie
The film is based on the novel by Romualdas Granauskas, winner of the Lithuanian National Cultural and Arts Award, and is the chronicle of a young man’s shifting relationships as he adjusts rather dramatically to the unfamiliarity of freedom. The film will be shown in Lithuanian with English subtitles. Duburys won the Silver Crane Award in Lithuania. It has been selected as Lithuania’s entry for this year’s Oscar nomination in the foreign language film category. Duburys was entered in the Montreal World Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and has been invited to Cairo International Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Defiance
Title: Defiance
Character: Police Captain's Son #2
Released: December 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.