Armands Zvirbulis Movies

The years 1941 and 1949 became a fateful turning point for thousands of Latvians who were taken away without warning to an unknown destination. In a...

Near the end of the Second World War, when it became clear that Latvia would be re-invaded by the Soviet Army, some 150,000 of its citizens fled to...

The children who were sent to Siberia in 1941 have not seen their fathers – in their memories they recollect: “My father was arrested, he...

This is a film about the return of an individual to the Far North, and to the past. Agapitova, Igarka – the vast lands of Siberia, to which...

An emotional, figurative and historical study of the memories of people who were deported to Siberia as children on June 14, 1941. The suffering of...

The significance of Kurts Fridrihsons reaches beyond the importance of his art, because during the Soviet period there were not many personalities...

Why did we travel to Siberia for 20 years? Why did we make this film? How did we see Siberia? People who were deported as children in 1949 and 1941...

John Dored was the first Latvian cinematographer to train with the famous Pathé, actively film on the front lines of WWI, and the only...

In 1941, 15,420 Latvian residents were deported to Siberia, including 4,000 children. More than 400 of them survived and currently live in Latvia....

Five stories and many more lives that are affected, they flow by each other and sometimes intersect. In one way or other we talk about emotional...

Interviews were conducted over a seven year period with 670 people who were deported to Siberia as children in 1941. Fragments of their memories form...

The protagonist of the film, Viktors, after losing his eyesight not only gets over depression and sense of estrangement but goes on living a...

The documentary about Dainis Īvāns, leader of the National Awakening movement between late 1980s and early 1990s, a human symbol of the...

Residents of the Cēsis district – Vizma Rass, Zigrīda Perevalova, and Andris Eglītis – recount their suffering during...

Latvians have left their land for all corners of the earth over the last centuries – either driven out for disobeying the powers at large, or...

People who were forcefully deported from Latvia to Siberia by the Soviet Union in 1941 and 1949 when they were kids. They haven't come back. Many...