Ivars Kalniņš

Ivars Kalniņš

Born: August 1, 1948
in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR
His father worked as a car mechanic, his mother maintained a household. Parents wanted his son to choose a reliable male profession, and from about the age of 14 Ivar began to combine his studies with work. Mastered the plumbing, then the repair of computer equipment. In 1974 he graduated from the Theatrical Department of the Latvian Conservatory. Vitola. After graduating from the conservatory, Ivar Kalnins settled in the Art Academic Theater named after Rainis. Theatrical salaries were insignificant, and Ivar was supposed to feed his family — his wife and two daughters. In the end, I had to remember youth and pick up a guitar. Currently, at home in Latvia, Ivar Kalnins plays in two theaters in Riga: the Small and the New. The Latvian cinema, which showed the world more than one masterpiece, you just need to remember. But Russian viewers can enjoy the new work of the actor.

Movies for Ivars Kalniņš...

Title: Pansija pilī
Released: January 22, 2024
Type: TV
A miniseries about the events during one summer in a family of a writer who are unexpectedly granted a remote estate with all its unusual inhabitants, and who has to decide what to do with the dilapidated estate. Exciting and comic events in eight episodes in which the future writer Anšlavs Eglītis together with his brother Vidvuds, father Viktors and his wife Hilda Vīka, begin the restoration of the estate, at the same time opening a boarding house, which becomes the intersection and summer stage of the neighbourhood, ghosts of the past, visitors from the city and Latvian intellectuals in Latvia in the in the 1920s.
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The Duel of Kings
Title: The Duel of Kings
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: Movie
When the leader of a brutal criminal community violates the rules of historical regulations for 15 years, a hostile chess player hits through a dozen bodyguards and begins a fight to restore justice.
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Short Waves
Title: Short Waves
Released: April 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Five novels about a radio network in our life. Someone use it as a tool for influence, someone for an expression of feelings and someone just for cynical calculation.
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The Aunties
Title: The Aunties
Character: Chief
Released: January 9, 2014
Type: Movie
The action of the story takes place around the Christmas time, when, as usually, the most unbelievable miracles come to life. The story starts with Masha - future doctor and meanwhile an eager student of medical university, her best friend Lilka - a colorful and charismatic young lady who is always in search of man of her life, and Masha's grandfather, Andrei Ivanovich, who is her only relative - a kind but deeply sad amateur painter. The heroes live their ordinary lifes with their worries and laughs until at Christmas Eve they receive a phone call... Three Aunties, who named them self as distant relatives, announce their arrival within an hour. With their arrival the story becomes dashing and somehow magical.
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Title: Forgotten
Character: первый секретарь обкома партии
Released: December 26, 2011
Type: TV
The year is 1949. Former front-line soldier and former investigator Sergei Gastev departs from investigative activities, faced with an unexpected problem of official mutual assistance. Attempts to restore justice almost end up in prison for himself. Gastev decides to limit his activities to teaching Roman law at the university of a small regional town. In Sergei's personal life, too, everything is not easy: the affair with the city Komsomol leader Lyudmila Mishina has to be carefully hidden...
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Golden heaven
Title: Golden heaven
Released: August 14, 2011
Type: Movie
Dasha’s whole life is one big love. Love for the only daughter with the strange name of Iya. “The name is from only vowels - and there will be no core in the character” - warned Dasha ... The heroine remembered these words when one day Iya simply left her mother. Gone from poverty and problems in a new beautiful life. Gone behind the golden skies from her children's drawing ...
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Загадки Рихарда Зорге
Title: Загадки Рихарда Зорге
Character: Himself - Voice
Released: November 6, 2005
Type: Movie
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Mirror Wars: Reflection One
Title: Mirror Wars: Reflection One
Character: Aton Kedrov
Released: September 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Mirror Wars: Reflection One is a post-cold-war thriller from the Russian point of view. Bad-guy British arms dealer Murdock (Malcolm McDowell) and numerous mercenaries and clandestine agents tries to steal a new Russian stealth fighter. Murdock is foiled by the hero, a patriotic Russian fighter-jet pilot who was recently branded a potential traitor because of his romantic fling with an alleged American ecologist. She was actually a shadowy intelligence operative before her untimely assassination in her lover's arms.
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Title: Studenty
Released: August 29, 2005
Type: TV
Evgeny Korolev arrives in Moscow by train and meets his future friend there - a red-haired first-year student Vladimir Vladimirovich Kvakusha. In addition to this guy with a funny last name, Zhenya recognizes Sasha, the head of the first-year students, who falls in love with him without memory. However, Zhenya himself falls in love with a third-year student, Veronika, whose boyfriend, Anton Sedykh, has great ties with the deputy dean Pavel Ilyich Gusev. As for Gusev, he hates Dean Vesnovsky and wants to take his place with all his might. Gusev's behavior affected not only teachers and students, but also Evgenia: he was once expelled from the student dormitory. However, he remembers that he has a friend Kvakusha, who is always ready to help him: the whole problem is that Kvakusha is a master at creating problems, and it is very difficult to solve them later.
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Year of the Horse - Constellation Scorpio
Title: Year of the Horse - Constellation Scorpio
Released: April 8, 2003
Type: Movie
In the past, the famous circus rider Maria learns that her favorite horse Senator, with whom she spoke, want to send to the slaughter. Then Mary decides to take a risky step and steals the horse from the circus.
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Удар Лотоса 3: Загадка Сфинкса
Title: Удар Лотоса 3: Загадка Сфинкса
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: Drongo
Character: «Drongo»
Released: September 23, 2002
Type: TV
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Hide-and-seek
Title: Hide-and-seek
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A young woman, Regina, has been killed in her apartment. Investigator Anderson holds Regina’s husband as a suspect for a murder because he is unable to remember his location at the time of the fateful event. Gradually, Anderson is convinced that Oto has not only killed his wife, but he also tries to hide his true identity – notorious criminal Schmit.
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The Mystery of the Old Parish House
Title: The Mystery of the Old Parish House
Character: Hugo
Released: July 11, 2000
Type: Movie
In this movie (based on a true story) within a movie, a director tries to film the tale of an old KGB activist living in a parish house. In the summer of 1941 the activist tortured and killed Latvians in the cellar of the house. Although the old man hires others to brick over the cellar door, the murdered people keep coming through the stones and never leave him in peace. Unbeknownst to the film makers, the "real" KGB activist, now an aged drunk, is milling about the film set. Moreover, the director and lead actor are competing for the love of the lead actress, and the film's producer wants the director to re-shoot parts of the movie.
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Title: Black Room
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: TV
The black room. Enclosed space. The action unfolds as if slowly. You understand that every word, every gesture of the heroes have a special, secret, as yet absolutely incomprehensible meaning. But you feel: you can't miss a single nuance. There are two or three heroes in each novel. There is a real drama between them, which ends with an explosion. Sometimes figuratively, and sometimes literally. Time is continuous: there is no yesterday and tomorrow.
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Title: Secrets of Palace Coups
Character: Burhard KHristofor fon Minikh
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: TV
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The Mills of Fate
Title: The Mills of Fate
Character: Eduks
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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Virgins of Riga
Title: Virgins of Riga
Released: May 26, 1996
Type: Movie
An easy-going, Blue-eyed Norwegian businessman seeking fame and fortune in the post-cold-war Riga. His involvment with a beautiful young Latvian girl, get's him tangled into obscure business with the mafia, the Russian fleet and the 'Sons of Norway'
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Title: Racket
Character: Sergey Gridasov
Released: May 22, 1995
Type: TV
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Шоу для одинокого мужчины
Title: Шоу для одинокого мужчины
Released: June 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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Investigation of Related Events
Title: Investigation of Related Events
Released: October 24, 1993
Type: Movie
The movie shows a young man's life dramatically changed after his friend is murdered. It is ironic - if to look with today's eyes - and nostalgia evoking portrait of marginal society and environment in the early 1990s with allusions to the western cinema - film noir related themes, surrealistic features, avantgard cinema stylization and formal aesthetics.
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De Granšānu ģimenes noslēpumi
Title: De Granšānu ģimenes noslēpumi
Released: July 11, 1993
Type: Movie
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Ночь вопросов
Title: Ночь вопросов
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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Цена головы
Title: Цена головы
Character: William Crosby
Released: October 15, 1992
Type: Movie
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Рэкет
Title: Рэкет
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Siwa legenda
Title: Siwa legenda
Character: Kizgaiła
Released: September 3, 1991
Type: Movie
Two noblemen from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania clash because one refuses to free his servant - a girl. The second joins a peasant revolt and takes over the castle.
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Тайна виллы
Title: Тайна виллы
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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Rabid Bus
Title: Rabid Bus
Released: June 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Action drama about a terrorists who kidnapped bus full of children in USSR.
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Entrance to Labyrinth
Title: Entrance to Labyrinth
Character: Aleksandr Panafidin
Released: May 1, 1990
Type: Movie
The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hallucinations) and in the days of Perestroika.
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Title: Entrance to the Maze
Character: Aleksandr Panafidin - professor
Released: May 1, 1990
Type: TV
A Russian mystery miniseries set both in medieval times and in the days of Perestroika.
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The Photo of a Woman with a Boar
Title: The Photo of a Woman with a Boar
Character: Zigurds Žīraks
Released: July 12, 1987
Type: Movie
The 1980s. Kārlis did his military service in Afghanistan and is now confined to a wheelchair. Before he left, he had fallen in love with the teacher Judīte, but she has now married a rich man...and poses nude for Kārlis' neighbour, the cynical photographer Rūdofs. Soon Rūdolfs is found dead, and Kārlis admits to having murdered him. But investigator Konrāds suspects that Kārlis is incriminating himself.
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Избранник судьбы
Title: Избранник судьбы
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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Софья Ковалевская
Title: Софья Ковалевская
Released: March 12, 1986
Type: Movie
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The Enticement of Don Juan
Title: The Enticement of Don Juan
Character: Don Juan / Commander
Released: February 6, 1986
Type: Movie
Based on Lesya Ukrainka's drama "The Stone Master". Without the permission of the king, in Seville, under the pretext of meeting his fiancée Dolores, returns the disgraced Don Juan, a thunderstorm of husbands and grooms. The loveable protagonist gained fame as a ladies man and a wild tempest of female reputations. But for Don Juan there are no barriers to the desired goal. This time he laid eyes on the lovely Donna Anna. Obsessed with a passion for her, the hero protects her ancestral castle from the Portuguese invading the country ...
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Cry of a Dolphin
Title: Cry of a Dolphin
Character: Rayflint (voice Sergey Malishevsky)
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
The crew of the new American strategic missile submarine "Archelon" is struck by an unknown virus. The command must decide on removing the submarine from combat duty and sending the crew to quarantine.
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Winter Cherries
Title: Winter Cherries
Character: Herbert
Released: October 21, 1985
Type: Movie
Olga, is a young intelligent woman who raises a young son. She ends up falling in love with a married man who does not dare to leave his family.
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Идущий следом
Title: Идущий следом
Released: March 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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Raspberry Wine
Title: Raspberry Wine
Released: December 2, 1984
Type: Movie
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Skydrivers
Title: Skydrivers
Released: December 1, 1984
Type: Movie
At the flying club Zina met a cameraman aerial filming Sergey Leninym, very seriously engaged in parachuting and after a while in international competitions has become one of the contenders for the gold medal. But soon fell into the gorge, the helicopter in which there was Sergey. And then Zina firmly decided to leave the sport…
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European Story
Title: European Story
Released: September 21, 1984
Type: Movie
Two candidates are vying for the post of mayor of one of the major Western European cities - the Social Democrat Dr. Hayden and the "free nationalist" Alden. On the eve of the election, an independent journalist receives documents confirming Alden's connection with the secret services. He becomes the object of blackmail, but does not change his intentions to expose Alden.
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Title: TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
Character: Игорь Степанович Минаев, офицер безопасности советского посольства, сотрудник КГБ
Released: July 30, 1984
Type: TV
The struggle of Soviet and American intelligence agencies during the Cold War era
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The Secret of Gretha Villa
Title: The Secret of Gretha Villa
Character: Yan Plinto
Released: April 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Members of the Shield and Helmet Masonic Lodge, sent by the CIA, are preparing a coup in one of the western countries. The criminal chronicle reporter manages to infiltrate the headquarters of the conspirators. The information he produces will play a decisive role in preventing the putsch. However, the successful journalist soon became convinced that he had discovered only the tip of the iceberg...
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Капитан Фракасс
Title: Капитан Фракасс
Character: герцог де Валломбрез
Released: March 22, 1984
Type: Movie
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Two Under One Umbrella
Title: Two Under One Umbrella
Character: Дан
Released: December 20, 1983
Type: Movie
‎Juggler Dan is beautiful and carefree and not too eager to become the circus main star. However, the meeting with Olga, who has no doubts about his talent, makes Dan think about a creation of anew circus show.
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Incident at Map-Grid 36-80
Title: Incident at Map-Grid 36-80
Character: Allan
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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White Dance
Title: White Dance
Released: October 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Silva
Title: Silva
Character: Эдвин фон Веллергейм
Released: September 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Silva Varescu, a self-sufficient and professionally successful cabaret performer from Budapest, is about to embark on a tour of America. Three of her aristocratic admirers, named Edwin, Feri and Boni, prefer her to stay. Edwin, unaware that his parents have already arranged a marriage for him back home in Vienna, orders a notary to prepare a promissory note of his expected marriage to Silva within ten weeks.
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Soul
Title: Soul
Released: June 6, 1981
Type: Movie
A famous singer is going through the dark period of her life...
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I do not guarantee personal safety
Title: I do not guarantee personal safety
Released: September 14, 1980
Type: Movie
In March 1946, Andrei Bologov, a graduate of the Leningrad Party School, arrived in one of the western regions of the country to build a peaceful life on earth, where unfinished fascist gangs continued to rage. Andrei was given the task of organizing the removal of harvested wood from distant plots, but barely left the claws of the "forest brothers" of Krakowski. The trainee from the party school and the local chairman of the village council, together with the residents, had to fight one of the many fascist detachments, consisting of traitors, deserters and ideological fighters against the Soviet regime ...
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Fairfax's Millions
Title: Fairfax's Millions
Released: July 13, 1980
Type: Movie
As the classic rightly noted, it is customary to treat the diseases of wealthy people with respect. Only a heart transplant can save the dying life of a millionaire Ferfax. In search of a suitable donor for his best client, Dr. Jones makes a series of killings. But he still does not know what reward awaits him for the services rendered ...
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Title: Little Tragedies
Character: Faust
Released: July 1, 1980
Type: TV
How far can a man overcome by a destructive passion go? And does he realize that slavish worship of irrepressible desires always entails retribution?
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Little Tragedies
Title: Little Tragedies
Character: Фауст/Дон Карлос
Released: June 30, 1980
Type: Movie
A feature film based on the three-part adaptation of the poetic and dramatic cycle of Alexander Pushkin
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Do Not Shoot at White Swans
Title: Do Not Shoot at White Swans
Character: Chuvalov
Released: June 11, 1980
Type: Movie
Egor Polushkin (Stanislav Lyubshin) is a kind-hearted, nature loving, artistic family man who is living in a small village. To his neighbors and even his wife (Nina Ruslanova) he is a walking disaster, so they frown at him and call him Bedonosec (engl. misfortune bearer). Only Egors son (Viktor Anisimov) shares his enthusiasm for the beautiful things of live. As Egor becomes the new forest ranger, this new position brings him not only joy, but it is also the source of great suffering to come, as his fondness for the living nature and especially the newly acquired white swans is in conflict with the interests of others...
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Inspector Goole
Title: Inspector Goole
Character: Джеральд Крофт
Released: September 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Sudden arrival of a police inspector in the middle of a bourgeois family's dinner party reveals various sordid and shameful secrets that may have contributed to the recent suicide of an impoverished young woman.
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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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Early Rust
Title: Early Rust
Released: July 11, 1979
Type: Movie
Poor countryside girl Elza has been unsuccessfully looking for a job in Riga before she gets help from an acquantance. After that, fortune seems to turn and rich aged factory owner Ķikulis wants to marry Elza. Reluctant at first, she finally agrees but the marriage doesn't got smoothly.
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Title: Театр
Character: Tom Fennel
Released: March 31, 1979
Type: TV
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Ранняя ржавчина
Title: Ранняя ржавчина
Character: Итало
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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Theatre
Title: Theatre
Character: Tom Fennel
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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Male Games in the Open Air
Title: Male Games in the Open Air
Released: July 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Relations of two sportsmen who often forget that they are not the only ones in the stadium.
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Gifts over the Phone
Title: Gifts over the Phone
Released: July 13, 1977
Type: Movie
After the train conductor Pētersons receives money transfer from an unknown source, he suspects foul play involving the cargo he's transporting. He decides to do his own investigation into the matter, not realizing that he's putting himself and those around him in danger.
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Under the Upturned Moon
Title: Under the Upturned Moon
Character: Juris
Released: December 26, 1976
Type: Movie
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The Arrows of Robin Hood
Title: The Arrows of Robin Hood
Released: June 14, 1975
Type: Movie
With a traditional archery contest, the winner wins a silver arrow with gold lace and gold feathers. Even Robin Hood, although unrecognizable, takes part in this competition. As more and more participants are losing and Robin Hood eventually wins the award, his masquerade reveals. For none of the participants is as handy with a bow and an arrow like Robin Hood. With the help of his coolness and his friends Robin Hood may escape the dangerous situation.
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Faithful Friend Sancho
Title: Faithful Friend Sancho
Released: November 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Ten year old Sancho arrives to Leningrad and starts looking for friends.
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Vālodzīte
Title: Vālodzīte
Character: Juris
Released: May 10, 1974
Type: Movie
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Apple in the River
Title: Apple in the River
Character: Janis
Released: January 3, 1974
Type: Movie
A feature shot as a documentary, with minimal interference in the surrounding action. The resulting film is a truthful and innocent portrayal of the era with no imitations or conscious borrowings but with its own avant-garde experiments.
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Maritime Climates
Title: Maritime Climates
Character: Ēriks Riekstiņš
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power hadn’t got worried by the rushes they saw, which lead them to terminate the production. In 1992, Rolands Kalniņš made this edit of the remaining material – an elegy to lost hopes and illusions.
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Peterss
Title: Peterss
Released: May 21, 1973
Type: Movie
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Right to Jump
Title: Right to Jump
Released: April 30, 1973
Type: Movie
The hero of the film, the world record holder in the high jump, after a car accident according to the conclusion of doctors, should forever leave the sport. But against all odds, he is doing everything possible to return to the national team. Chance brings him together with a surgeon, also fanatically devoted to his work - and the hero again wins international competitions.