Martins Straupe

Películas

El Buen Vecino
Production Design
Una noche de pesadilla se desarrolla para David, un ex periodista del New York Times, cuando él y su nuevo y extraño vecino, Robert, golpean accidentalmente a una chica en su bicicleta. Aturdido y desorientado, David deja que Robert lo convenza de huir de la escena y dejar a la niña por muerta, para proteger su carrera. Robert no muestra remordimiento y, en nombre de la amistad, hace cosas indescriptibles para proteger el secreto. Ahora que la policía está buscando al asesino que se da a la fuga, las cosas comienzan a salirse de control cuando el periódico local de David lo envía a cubrir la historia en la que conoce a la hermana de la niña fallecida, Vanessa. A pesar de las circunstancias y de su profundo deseo de encontrar al asesino de su hermana, los dos inmediatamente tienen una conexión romántica, que sorprende y atormenta a David, mientras empuja a Robert a tomar medidas brutales para quedarse con su nuevo amigo.
Young Love In a Dirty Place
Art Direction
A young couple puzzles their way out of the first relationship crisis.
He Was Called Chaos Berzins
Production Design
Harry Berzins is abducted by aliens. Traumatic experience gained is on a foreign planet, where the gray race rules and makes Berzins feel excluded. The only creature he believes is the odd Ufologist Vilma Kavace. While Vilma uses Berzins as an alien attraction bait, his mother, impregnated with a Latvian sperm on another planet, carries his child. Shieet.
Lotus
Production Design
Baltic German Alice Fon Trota returns to her father’s manor in Latvia in 1919 to sell it and start new life. She meets hostile resistance of local workers and discovers she has been lured into a carefully tailored trap, organized by demonic lawyer Emil Keizerling, decadent underground organization “Viva La Mort” and its necrophile leader Zība Falstaff. They plan to manipulate with Alice, who has received good education in France but also had suffered severe physical traumas. Knowing that her deepest desire is to carry out her unexpressed creative talents, they want to use her potential for their demoniacal purposes that regard the future of Latvia. While escaping the clutches of her “helpers”, she meets Latvian silent cinema enthusiasts. While being with them and working with cinematograph, she learns to use it as a self-discovery tool, as a weapon of confrontation of her enemies and as a way to transform her healing wounds by creating masterpiece of silent cinema.
The Invisible Fight
Art Direction
A guard on the Soviet-Chinese border who, after surviving a deadly attack, decides to become a monk but must continually prove along the way that he's capable of becoming the enlightened man he set out to be.