Ansis Epners
Birth : 1937-10-26, Latvia
Death : 2003-04-02
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An omnibus film consisting of ten parts, each directed by a different young director from the Latvian Academy of Culture. The unifying element of the ten shorts is the place where they take place - the airport. A lot can happen there - including a strike by a comet, a malicious attempt to break havoc by passengers, or an exploration of the old airport guard's house where not a lot has changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The film consists of the following parts: A Mishap (Nediena) by Arta Biseniece, Blurp (Šļurp) by Aija Bley, Alien Sky (Svešās debesis) by Viesturs Kairišs, 5 Versions (5 versijas) by Dzintars Krūmiņš, Comet (Komēta) by Māra Liniņa, Cleptomania (Kleptomānija) by Andis Mizišs, Alfredo's Poetry (Alfredo dzeja) by Igors Varenieks, Little Hand (Mazā roka) by Ilze Vidauska, Comet 2 (Komēta 2) by Anna Viduleja, and Life No. 2 (Dzīve nr.2) by Kristīne Želve.
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Edmunds Berzs is an architect who has achieved a comfortable life, but this causes him unease, so he decides to go to the country house where his mother lives. There he wakes up to find himself locked in a cage in the middle of the forest. Edmunds, paradoxically, finds the tranquility he was looking for.
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Edmunds Berzs is an architect who has achieved a comfortable life, but this causes him unease, so he decides to go to the country house where his mother lives. There he wakes up to find himself locked in a cage in the middle of the forest. Edmunds, paradoxically, finds the tranquility he was looking for.
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Edmunds Berzs is an architect who has achieved a comfortable life, but this causes him unease, so he decides to go to the country house where his mother lives. There he wakes up to find himself locked in a cage in the middle of the forest. Edmunds, paradoxically, finds the tranquility he was looking for.
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Film dedicated to Latvian refugees scattered around the world by World War II.
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A dynamic, emotional film about sports and the fellowship of athletes from different countries, joining their forces in the fight for peace. The film was shot during the Goodwill Games in 1986 in Moscow.
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A dynamic, emotional film about sports and the fellowship of athletes from different countries, joining their forces in the fight for peace. The film was shot during the Goodwill Games in 1986 in Moscow.
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The film depicts the 1985 Song Festival, focusing on the choir's chief conductors.
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The film depicts the 1985 Song Festival, focusing on the choir's chief conductors.
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A meditation on Henrik Ibsen's plays "Brand" and "Peer Gynt".
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Reflections on the moral values that develop in a person during school years. The author tells about his former school in Mazsalaca.
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Reflections on the moral values that develop in a person during school years. The author tells about his former school in Mazsalaca.
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About Māris Grīva, the coach of Dainis Kūla, the Olympic champion in javelin throwing, who trains young javelin throwers in Ventspils.
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About Māris Grīva, the coach of Dainis Kūla, the Olympic champion in javelin throwing, who trains young javelin throwers in Ventspils.
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Four young men after university are sent to work as managers in a collective (kolkhoz). The film is about how these people try to achieve something better in the Soviet system.
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Four young men after university are sent to work as managers in a collective (kolkhoz). The film is about how these people try to achieve something better in the Soviet system.
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Relations of two sportsmen who often forget that they are not the only ones in the stadium.
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The second part of a duology about Sergei Eisenstein's life, creative work and his epoch.
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The second part of a duology about Sergei Eisenstein's life, creative work and his epoch.
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Lamentation on the passing of the Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
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About the workers of underground communications in Riga.
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About the workers of underground communications in Riga.
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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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Reportage about competition for draft horses which turns into cinematographic parable about people’s desire to achieve the impossible.
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Reportage about competition for draft horses which turns into cinematographic parable about people’s desire to achieve the impossible.
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Arnolds Cīrulis, a history teacher from Džūkste, remembers the events of the Second World War.
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Arnolds Cīrulis, a history teacher from Džūkste, remembers the events of the Second World War.
