Valentins Skulme

Valentins Skulme

Born: April 21, 1922
Died: September 12, 1989
in Riga, Latvia

Movies for Valentins Skulme...

Victoria
Title: Victoria
Released: April 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria. The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced into marrying Otto, a lieutenant, to save the troubled family economy.
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Littlefinger
Title: Littlefinger
Released: January 3, 1987
Type: Movie
Little Tom Thumb's evil stepmother exploits him amd makes his life very hard, so the little shepherd boy decides to leave home and seek happiness in the world outside. There little Tom Thumb meets the Wind Mother, Forest Mother and a little old man on his way. Each of them gives him a chore to do that earns him a gift with magical power, which comes in handy when he has to defeat Scrooges, Lop-Eared Man and the Devil himself. While traveling in the world and looking for happiness, he realises he misses his grandmother and little sister...
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Title: Театр
Character: Lord Charles Tammerly
Released: March 31, 1979
Type: TV
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Theatre
Title: Theatre
Character: Lord Charles
Released: October 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.
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Viesnīca Tanatos
Title: Viesnīca Tanatos
Released: September 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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In a Claws of a Black Cancer
Title: In a Claws of a Black Cancer
Released: August 31, 1976
Type: Movie
The action takes place in Kurzeme in the 17th century. The Duke of Courland, the King of Poland and the German barons wants power over the Latvian people. Farmers are the biggest victims of this power struggle.
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Vālodzīte
Title: Vālodzīte
Character: Jazep
Released: May 10, 1974
Type: Movie
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Slomannaya Podkova
Title: Slomannaya Podkova
Character: valet Trankel
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
По мотивам повести Жюля Верна "Драма в Лифляндии". Французский аэронавт Жюль Ардан, путешествуя на воздушном шаре, случайно оказывается в Ревеле. Здесь он знакомится с доктором Петерсоном и его дочерью Лейдой. За женихом Лейды охотятся жандармы. В городе происходит убийство сына банкира. Подозрение падает на Петерсона. За расследование преступления берется Жюль Ардан.
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Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill
Title: Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill
Released: July 12, 1972
Type: Movie
The 30-year war still goes on. Riga headmasters have decided to submit themselves to mercy of Polish-Lithuanian Duke. Rigas' defenders disagree strongly and steal the ceremonial Key of Riga. Will they succeed in their fight against all odds? Will three Latvian musketeers have their happily ever after?
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Waterloo
Title: Waterloo
Character: Tamburo Maggione (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1970
Type: Movie
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
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Farkhad's Heroism
Title: Farkhad's Heroism
Character: Hassel
Released: April 15, 1968
Type: Movie
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The Unforgettable
Title: The Unforgettable
Character: Ernst Kraus
Released: August 30, 1967
Type: Movie
About hardships of the first years of War, which fell to the lot of ordinary people in Ukraine, who got under the yoke of fascist occupation, and heroic struggle against the invaders. A young Russian woman asks a Red Army soldier to spend the night with her in the wake of the Nazi invasion. Fearing she may soon perish, the woman hopes for one night of romance before what could be a horrible demise.
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Arena
Title: Arena
Character: white clown
Released: August 30, 1967
Type: Movie
In one of the occupied European cities, the commandant of the garrison gathers a troupe of circus performers. Coming from different countries, they are in the humiliating position of people forced to serve their enslavers. Many of them, recruited from camps and workhouses, were quite content with their lot. Only after a chain of subsequent events, the artists raise an uprising. Unarmed people are not able to resist the arrived guards. They die, but at the cost of their lives they regain their lost human dignity.
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The Swamp Wader
Title: The Swamp Wader
Character: baron
Released: July 13, 1966
Type: Movie
In this film, set in Latvia in the late 19th century, Edgars, the coachman of Alaine Manor, loves Kristine, the washerwoman's daughter, although he is too hot-headed for Kristine's mother to consider him a good suitor for his daughter. The servant Viskrelis and stable boy Sutka try to tempt Edgars to a life of drinking and a relationship with the barmaid Matilde. Meanwhile, Kristine is courted by the rich land owner, Akmentins.
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The Lark
Title: The Lark
Character: Jean Peugeot
Released: December 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Russian prisoners of war commandeer a tank and lead the Nazis on a cross-country chase in this World War II adventure drama. The Russians use their own tanks so the Nazis can use them as target practice to test a new anti-tank weapon. Knowing that death is near, the brave Russians run amok and tear down German monuments before heading out to a field where female slave laborers are working.
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People Don’t Know Everything
Title: People Don’t Know Everything
Released: November 2, 1964
Type: Movie
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Diena bez vakara
Title: Diena bez vakara
Released: April 29, 1963
Type: Movie
The directing debut of the acclaimed Latvian cinematographer Māris Rudzītis.
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Third Time
Title: Third Time
Character: Johan Dietrich
Released: April 11, 1963
Type: Movie
The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team of Soviet prisoners of war, former "Dinamo". It happened in Kiev on June 22, 1942. Anticipating the possibility of losing, the Germans made a condition — defeat or death. If the Germans won, the Soviet footballers were promised freedom...
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In the Underworld
Title: In the Underworld
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A story about children helping the Soviet Army during the war.
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Ice Run
Title: Ice Run
Character: Haske
Released: July 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Two proud fisherman families live on a very small island in Estonia. The two fishermen have always bore a grudge against each other. Their stubbornness and disobedience to German occupiers leads to dramatic events where staying alive is worse than death. Since it is impossible to escape public contempt, they have to decide how to redeem themselves.
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Three Hundred Years Ago...
Title: Three Hundred Years Ago...
Character: Pototsky's associate
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
In the middle of the 17th century, Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks rose up to fight against the Polish gentry rule. About the events of the National Liberation War in Ukraine under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who with a firm hand led the insurgent masses to an alliance with Russia.