Jurijs Djakonovs

Jurijs Djakonovs

Movies for Jurijs Djakonovs...

Anna LOL
Title: Anna LOL
Released: May 23, 2024
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age drama about a teenage girl who lives through the break-up of her family and her friend’s suicide. The script is based on the diaries of a real high-school senior year student (also the scriptwriter of the film), who wrote about her experiences in 2018-2019.
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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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Limo
Title: Limo
Character: Driver
Released: October 18, 2023
Type: Movie
In a dystopian world, a limousine driver named Arthur transports various passengers around the centre of Riga. His every move is monitored by the limousine's artificial intelligence, MO. Arthur and MO's relationship is seemingly friendly and playful, but there is a feeling in the air that Arthur is careful not to provoke MO. The evening is tense and Arthur has several confrontations with MO. Arthur decides to distract the limousine's AI MO by telling jokes to avoid triggering the emotion control device.
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North Pole
Title: North Pole
Released: October 4, 2023
Type: Movie
"North Pole" is a visually expansive and lightly comic story about overcoming loneliness and doubt. The main character of the film, Maksis, spends his days working in an ice cream van, but attends techno music events in the evenings. He believes that one day he will step foot on the stage himself, but the young man's fear seems to be stronger than his willpower. On the border of reality and dreams, guided by his friends, Maksis seeks a balance between comfort and challenges to answer the question - are you ready?
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Piper
Title: Piper
Character: Hanzi
Released: August 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Liz and her daughter Amy move to Hamelin where a dark secret in Liz's past is uncovered by the restless spirit of the Pied Piper, who seeks out those who have gotten away with a crime, and punishes them by taking away their children.
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The Good Neighbor
Title: The Good Neighbor
Character: Male Friend
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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Manny
Title: Manny
Released: May 7, 2022
Type: Movie
Journey of a woman on a writer's retreat, struggling with her identity as a closet homosexual. Her life unfolds through three love interests, one real, one a figment of her imagination and the third virtual - man, woman and AI.
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Right Hand Man
Title: Right Hand Man
Character: Artis Baranovskis
Released: April 22, 2022
Type: Movie
Artis Baranovskis is a "registrator". He helps his clients by setting up fake companies. An hour before leaving to his own wedding, Artis has to find Jana, who's a fake shareholder of a company with a million euros on its account. Once she's found and her looks changed to those of a rich lady, Jana realizes her power and starts to play her own game. "Right Hand Man" is a crime comedy about money, accounts and troublesome thieves.
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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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Taboo
Title: Taboo
Released: November 25, 2021
Type: Movie
A comedy about sex, love, relationships, and taboo. In a multi-story narrative, we peer behind the closed doors of a seemingly normal city.
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Title: Uzticības persona
Released: October 12, 2021
Type: TV
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Tu pārāk klusi runā
Title: Tu pārāk klusi runā
Released: October 7, 2021
Type: Movie
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Cold Bodies Pile High
Title: Cold Bodies Pile High
Released: October 5, 2021
Type: Movie
It’s 1919. The war is raging in Latvia and bodies pile high. A young rifleman’s (Thomas, 30) cold body is placed on a floor inside a mysterious sculptors' studio. Thomas wakes up with his head locked inside a cast and tries to find a way out from the dark room, but soon enough realizes that he is not the only one, who has woken up. The Ghost mother, a pagan goddess of death, tries to pull the young man into the afterlife. Meanwhile, the sculptor places Thomas’s death mask next to the others.
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Say Yes
Title: Say Yes
Released: August 13, 2021
Type: Movie
Should I say - "I do"? Break up? Postpone the wedding? Reconcile? ...? A modern story of relationship, friendship, and love, in which money also plays a big role.
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Title: Red Forest
Character: Rubenis
Released: March 2, 2019
Type: TV
A drama about the national resistance movement in Latvia after the Soviet occupation. Events take place in 1949 when the British intelligence service MI6 tries to find out about the situation in the Baltic States occupied by the Soviet Union. Wittold (Jekabs Reinis), together with other Latvians, works hard in his daily work, and Velta (Agnese Cirule) is a nurse. They dream of going to the United States, saving money, planning a wedding and arranging the necessary documents because the US carefully selects emigrants. But Wittold decides to take part in the Mission, and the hope of changing history changes his life.
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Seven Awkward Sex Scenes. Part One
Title: Seven Awkward Sex Scenes. Part One
Released: March 15, 2018
Type: Movie
A young director, who sits in front of a commission defending a film based on her own experiences with sex and relationships, is continually confronted with questions about why she’s making the movie. The answer doesn’t come easy… Linde took on a difficult task for her short film.
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What Nobody Can See
Title: What Nobody Can See
Released: March 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Elsa falls in love with a quadriplegic genius, her patient Nicola, whose mansion hides a secret – Nicola is obsessed with the creation of an artificial intellect. His creation, named Anna, stops at nothing to keep her master just for herself.
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Swingers
Title: Swingers
Released: December 9, 2016
Type: Movie
We have sex in Latvia! A light comedy about building relationships - with passion and funny misunderstandings. All characters of this movie are in desire for flirt - be it at a swingers' party or during a sudden encounter with a beautiful stranger on the balcony.
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Disposable Darling
Title: Disposable Darling
Released: August 11, 2016
Type: Movie
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Riga-2041
Title: Riga-2041
Released: December 29, 2014
Type: Movie
Three unrelated sci-fi stories that depict people’s search for happiness.
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I Shall Return as a Flaming Rose
Title: I Shall Return as a Flaming Rose
Released: November 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Lonely, 45 year-old worker Kasandra has just received a lethal diagnosis from her doctor. She goes to her high school reunion, confused, and is faced with phantasmagorical events that completely shatter her daily routine. Kasandra flees from the city. In the forest, she is engulfed by a river and brought to a secluded sea shore. Alone and over time Kasandra experiences an unusual healing and rebirth.