Rolands Kalniņš Movies

Cezars Kalnins installs telephones by day and composes pop songs by night. His band has a hard time receiving the permit from Soviet censorship...

After losing his job, Kārlis is forced into grueling work at a remote peat quarry—only to find himself caught between the Communist...

The hard work plays an important role in the personal growth of a runner.

A TV documentary about Latvian actor Uldis Pūcītis, featuring fragments from many of his films ("Swap Treader", "Four White Shirts" and...

A political film based in Latvian countryside in 1947.

A six-year-old boy plots to stop his "sweetheart", a grown-up woman in his pre-World War II Latvian village, from marrying.

A story about the significance of Goethe’s Faust in the development of Latvian literature, language, publishing, culture and theatre. The...

What happens in the eyes of a 100-year-old filmmaker? Rolands Kalniņš, one of the great masters of Latvian cinema, sits down to have his...

The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power...

Land surveyors arrive in two parishes to measure and redistribute manor land. The rivalry between both feoffees for land and woman begins.

A film about combating venereal diseases.

Based on the popular novel of the same title by Vilis Lācis. Latvia, the 1930s. Roberts Līviņš, the son of a dockhand, becomes...

Latvia in the 1920s. The enterprising Edgars Ceplis establishes a company to produce bricks from Latvian clay for export. Many are involved in his...

Relations of two sportsmen who often forget that they are not the only ones in the stadium.

A businessman and a footballer are murdered before an important football match in Prague. Investigation has to be started.

Early 20th-century Latvia. Revolutionary Mārtiņš Robežnieks is arrested by the gendarmes, while his younger brother Jānis,...

Head of the CID and his colleagues are investigating a serious crime but the main witnesses are of no help.

Donats is a modern-day Don Juan juggling the various women in his life seemingly without any consequences, until he falls in love with Agnese. Her...

The first film in a duology based on the biography of Latvian revolutionary Jānis Fabricius. Mārtiņš Venta, the son of a forest...

This screen adaptation of Andrejs Upītis' novella marks the debut in Latvian cinema of two of the first graduates of the Moscow Film Institute -...