Vaironis Jakans

The heroine of the film Asya works in the dining room of the Riga Glass Factory. She loves to carve wooden figures and wants to learn how to work glass, like her husband and all their friends. But to Uldis, his wife's hobbies don't seem serious. He is also indifferent to the troubles of his workmates, and thinks more about his career.

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An adventurous love story of a veterinarian from Riga, a cheerful loser Andris.

A group of men go under-ice fishing, but find themselves trapped on a piece of ice, that has broken off. As they are drifting through the sea, the tension between them rises.

The events of the film take place in Latvia during the 1930s to the 1950s. Klinta, a young, poor, and naive villager, studies music in a nearby provincial Latvian town. Her meeting with the owner of a wealthy farm, Olavs, becomes fateful for the girl.

The action takes place in Kurzeme in the 17th century. The Duke of Courland, the King of Poland and the German barons want power over the Latvian people. Farmers are the biggest victims of this power struggle.

The Second World War has just ended, but national partisans are still hiding in Latvia's forests and fighting against the Soviet regime. Ansis Leinasars, who has been tasked to spark a coup in Latvia, arrives by night from across the sea, but his work is hampered at every step. His last hope is a meeting with the partisans in a church...

In 1944, as Soviet forces establish control over parts of Latvia, Antons Paipala returns from the front to his native parish and becomes its first Communist Party organiser. As fighting with the forest brothers continues and the new Soviet order takes shape, Antons finds himself caught between political duty and family loyalty.

The son of Martins Viksna, the collective farm chairman, Klavs comes home from the military service and starts working in his native kolkhoz but does not understand his colleagues, so he goes to town.

On his 18th birthday, Māris receives a motorcycle from his parents, and, while driving around with his friends, they pass a wedding car. The bride, Inese, is entering a loveless marriage, so she allows Māris to steal her from the wedding reception.

During the 1905 Revolution, secret police arrest a man travelling under the identity of the merchant Karlsons, suspecting that he is in fact a prominent revolutionary. His tense psychological duel with secret police chief Greguss becomes a battle of wits, as each tries to uncover the other’s intentions. Meanwhile, underground revolutionaries devise a daring operation to free their captured comrade.