Gunārs Balodis

出生 : 1934-05-29, Cēsis, Latvia

参加作品

Duplets
Art Direction
Ecological criminal intrigue during the international billiard tournament in Riga.
Tapers
Production Design
The Double
Production Design
A man sees his picture on a 'Most Wanted' board and after going to police he meets someone who looks suspiciously similar to him.
The Game Is Taking Place Anyway
Art Direction
A businessman and a footballer are murdered before an important football match in Prague. Investigation has to be started.
My Friend Socrates
Art Direction
A story about ten years old Raymond who wants to learn how to drive a car.
Garden With A Ghost
Art Designer
Strange Passions
Art Direction
It is the post-war era on the Latvian border, and the Lithuanian girl Maryte has located her relative, Antanas. Having been a farmhand on a rich farm as well as the lover of the owner's wife, upon his return from the war Antanas hopes to gain as much as he can from the collapse of the old world. The wife's daughter, Ausma, has since grown up and seems much more desirable to Antanas than his former lover. The historical situation makes for a tense atmosphere, because in the nighttime partisans may emerge from the forest, while during the daytime everyone must be careful to follow the new rules of life under Soviet rule.
My Family
Art Direction
After his family was introduced on a national TV as a "perfect family", the son Robert has a hard time confronting all the lies related to this accidental fame.
Long Road in the Dunes
Art Direction
Love and betrayal in a small fishing village in Latvia from 1930s until the Soviet time. Time before WW2, during WW2, punishment in Siberia, Soviet Union, returning home, and above all that - undying love, that still survives no matter what. And, on top of that, Marta and Arthur share their love...
Gifts over the Phone
Production Design
After the train conductor Pētersons receives money transfer from an unknown source, he suspects foul play involving the cargo he's transporting. He decides to do his own investigation into the matter, not realizing that he's putting himself and those around him in danger.
Reflection in the Water
Art Direction
Based on a story by Janis Lapsa, written by Janis Lapsa and Andris Kolbergs, film is a singular work, filled with human warmth. It is a story about a talented surgeon Markalns, who after a serious personal crisis, returns to his native town in order to start his life anew. The attention is concentrated on the inner world of Markalns, his feelings in this so important period of his life, when to endure and to proceed means to regain the lost sense of life and himself. His character and emotional world opens in a wide scale: in collisions with colleagues, patients, friends, himself. He is contradictory, but even in moments of low spirits, virile. A real warmth and balance of mind is brought in the life of the outwardly robust and clumsy surgeon by a shy small-town girl Irita, called Doggie.
To Be Unwanted
Production Design
Voldis Viters is released after seven years in prison. He is 46 years old and has no family or job. Some of his old friends have abandoned the life of crime, and policeman Leo Aleksandrs, as well as the beautiful taxi driver Irēna, try to persuade Voldis to forget the past and move on. But when the crime boss Teksis proposes a plan to rob a jewelry store, Voldis agrees, thinking this will be his last crime before starting a new life. Marking the pinnacle of its director's filmography, To Be Unwanted is a psychological drama that centers not on a single crime or its investigation but on the emotional collapse of the criminal as he realizes that his amoral lifestyle has rendered him redundant within society.
Keys to Paradise
Production Designer
Successful work and life of a brave militia captain who does not know much about human psychology.
Light at the End of the Tunnel
Art Direction
A load of gold is stolen. Detectives make criminals play by their rules.
Maritime Climates
Art Direction
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.
Klavs - The Son of Martin
Art Direction
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.
Boys from Liv Island
Art Direction
A group of young Latvian boys enroll to a pioneers movement during the first years after WWII.
When Rain and Wind Hit Against Your Window
Production Design
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...
Akmens un šķembas
Production Design
During World War II three best friends are mobilized into the Waffen-SS Latvian Legion. Years later their fates continue to intertwine, as memories of war loom in back of their minds.
Captain Nulle
Costume Design
Valdis Nulle is a young and ambitious captain of fishing ship 'Dzintars'. He has his views on fishing methods but the sea makes its own rules. Kolkhoz authorities are forced to include dubious characters in his crew, for example, former captain Bauze and silent alcoholic Juhans. The young captain lacks experience in working with so many fishermen on board. Unexpectedly, pretty engineer Sabīne is ordered to test a new construction fishing net on Nulle's ship and 'production conflict' between her and the captain arises...
The Tsar's Bride
Art Direction
Filmed adaptation of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera.
In the Underworld
Art Direction
A story about children helping the Soviet Army during the war.
Kārkli pelēkie zied
Art Direction
A film about the intertwined fates of ordinary students and the artists of a youth theatre.