Raimonds Pauls (1936) is the most prolific and one of the most well-known Latvian composers of popular music. Pauls is a skilled jazz pianist and he is credited for noticing talent in many new singers, as he has been the musical producer of several musical ensembles and spearheaded the careers of many popular singers.
The musical film tells the story of the birth of a new tradition - the popular music festival and its core idea - to create real Latvian Music Festivals for the audience, which celebrate the diverse multi-generational musical values created in Latvia.
Release Date2023-08-28
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Charactersd Self (archival footage)
Eurolaul was an annual televised competition to select a song to represent Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest made by the Estonian Public Television Service ETV. For many years the competition differed from the national selections of most other countries in that the outcome was solely determined by an international jury. The rules were changed to entrust the Estonian public with the choice by means of televoting in 2004 and 2005, but due to the disappointing results in the ESC in those years there was a return to the former system in 2006. Eurolaul also selected Tanel Padar and Dave Benton's song "Everybody" in 2001, which went on to win the contest for Estonia. In 2009, Eurolaul was discontinued after a long period of bad results for Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest and was replaced with a new contest entitled Eesti Laul.
Release Date1993-02-20
Charactersd Self - Jury
Episode Count1
Two Latvian actors travel the country and visit different witches and healers to find purpose to their lives after years of alcoholism, which has had a great impact on their personal health. On the way they run into trouble, adventure and many comic, as well as tragic, situations.
Release Date2012-10-04
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Nora Bumbiere (1947-1994) was one of the popular estrada-singer in Latvia. This will be a documentary about Nora. About Nora, who has left us an unforgettable musical story. A story that it's time to tell.
Release Date2018-04-19
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Release Date2012-08-28
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
A gripping journey into the world of Latvian rock legend Juris Kulakovs. The film follows a young filmmaker as she uncovers the essence of the enigmatic musician through his tumultuous life, music, and eccentric flat. Delve into the Soviet-era struggles and post-independence triumphs through candid conversations with both Kulakovs and those closest to him. An exploration of art, passion, and perseverance in the face of adversity.
Release Date2025-02-15
Charactersd Self (voice)
The film follows the Maestro's work on the concert program "Shakespeare. Sonnets. Pauls. Busulis. Keišs" during rehearsals, radio recordings, and the premiere. The camera also follows Raimonds Pauls during the creation of the Midsummer Eve and Christmas programs, capturing the Maestro's insights, conversations with colleagues, instructions to young soloists and actors, and his inevitable jokes.
Release Date2026-01-12
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Charactersd Self
The composer Raimonds Pauls, the artist of the USSR People's Stage, shares his thoughts on life and work. The authors focus on the difficult daily work of a talented artist.
Release Date1985-01-01
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Charactersd Self
A candid film about Intar's life from the perspective of his children. In the film, they interview people close to their dad and important in his life, and also look for answers to not so convenient questions.
Release Date2023-10-25
Charactersd Self
A film of the popular composer Raimonds Pauls - with music, songs and open conversation about popularity, light and serious music
Release Date1977-01-12
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Charactersd Self
Release Date2015-05-02
Charactersd Self
Release Date2015-09-18
Charactersd Self - composer
Episode Count1
This documentary tells the story of a Latvian social legend of the 20th century, meeting Raimonds Pauls one month before his 70th birthday.
Release Date2006-01-12
Charactersd Self
Raimonds Pauls is almost 85 years old, rehearses almost every day and performs at least once a week. What drives him? Not only he is the most popular composer in Latvia: his songs are sung all over the world. "Dāvāja Māriņa" is so popular in Japan that Paul received the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun. In concerts, he collaborates with world stars of Latvian origin - soprano Elīna Garanča, organist Iveta Apkalna, conductor Mariss Jansons. The Latvian Television film crew follows him during the pandemic, realizing that the restrictions and threats of Covid-19 hardly stop the Maestro in the course of his eternal engine. How does he cope with the challenges that time imposes on a person's physical form and the loneliness when most friends have passed away? What is the source of his inexhaustible lifestyle and creative spirit?
Release Date2021-01-08
Charactersd Self
A lonely thirty year-old woman lives in a small apartment on the edge of town. She meets a man, life looks brighter, but she suspects he’s hiding something from her.
Release Date1982-12-20
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count1
In the Latvian countryside at the end of the 19th century, Jānis decides it is time to find a wife—but choosing the right one proves no easy task. Pretending to have gone deaf after listening to church bells from the bell tower, he visits the surrounding farms and overhears conversations never meant for his ears. While others reveal their true characters, only Ilze, the blacksmith’s sister, shows genuine concern and wonders how the unfortunate young man might be cured.
Release Date1982-07-13
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count4
Release Date1972-01-03
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count2
A group of young Latvian boys enroll to a pioneers movement during the first years after WWII.
Release Date1969-06-27
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
To catch a couple of car thieves, a policewoman goes undercover as an old woman that recently has gotten a luxury car "Volga" - a plan that is bound to attract the criminals. For how hard can it be to steal a car from an old woman?
Release Date1973-01-04
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count4
Three best friend are going to spend a vacation on a sea shore. But when they arrive to their usual place they suddenly find that the spot is already occupied - by two beautiful girls.
Release Date1963-07-03
DepartmentSound
JobMusician
Vote Count61
New Wave is an international contest for young performers of popular music founded in 2002 by the Russian composer Igor Krutoy and Latvian pianist and composer Raimonds Pauls, and was later enhanced by the Russian superstar Alla Pugacheva.
Release Date2002-07-31
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
The 30-year war still goes on. Riga headmasters have decided to submit themselves to mercy of Polish-Lithuanian Duke. Rigas' defenders disagree strongly and steal the ceremonial Key of Riga. Will they succeed in their fight against all odds? Will three Latvian musketeers have their happily ever after?
Release Date1972-07-12
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Vote Count6
Two Red-head clowns help Princess-Mimo to escape from the villainous White clown's intrigues.
Release Date1991-03-01
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Release Date1989-06-01
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
The great actress Julia Lambert suddenly realizes that she is, alas, getting old. What can help a woman who has absolutely everything? Only new love. And Julia falls in love with the first person she meets: an ambitious young man who has not a penny behind his soul. So begins a new life - a new romance and new tears. How else could it be?
Release Date1978-10-15
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Vote Count11
In one of the prestigious restaurants during banquet speech a large company's director Palmgren is killed in front of dozen guests . Case is lead by Criminal Investigation Officer Pierre Monson with his assistants. Suspect can be easily intercepted if only miserably lazy police officers Kvant and Kristiansson instead of catching criminal would not argue with father of little 3 years old boy who yelled: "Police, police, mashed potatoes" when they ate hot dogs. Help comes from capital in form of the famous Commissioner Martin Beck, who discovers that murdered industrialist was involved in illegal activities and had many enemies. The case is linked as well with government's "higher ends".
Release Date1979-09-08
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Episode Count2
Release Date1977-04-09
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
A love triangle - a terminally ill university teacher, a blind girl and a young bard. In the background of it all - the wild arrival of the capitalism, political conflicts, city life and the beautiful nature of Latvia. In the end love will conquer everything, though not everybody will live to witness that.
Release Date1997-11-21
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count5
Ecological criminal intrigue during the international billiard tournament in Riga.
Release Date1992-07-12
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count4
When old auntie Mirta succeeds in a lottery and wins a car which she cannot use herself, all sorts of family members suddenly appear by her side, hoping to get the car after their auntie's death. Until then, they had never helped Mirta, it was only her neighbours who supported her in her old age. Now, her nephew Ēriks with his wife and son, and her ex-daughter-in-law Olita with her second husband and daughter, would all love to get their hands on the car that's in the colour of Midsummer's Eve.
Release Date1982-02-01
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count15
The action of the film takes place in Latvia and spans the period from 1939 to the early 1970s. The events that occurred in the country had various effects on the fates of the characters. But throughout it all, love guided them — it scattered and gathered, made them suffer terribly, and made them the happiest people in the world...
Release Date1982-06-02
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Episode Count7
Vote Count4
Release Date1979-03-31
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
A story of a Latvian journalist spying for USSR in Spain during the civil war.
Release Date1980-07-12
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
The story of a little brat and how he was punished for disrespecting older people.
Release Date1970-06-07
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
A tramp with the appearance of Charlie Chaplin gets a job as a shepherd on the ranch of O'Donell, the local "king of cattle," and falls in love with his beautiful daughter, Josepha, nicknamed "princess."
Release Date1986-03-01
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count1
A homeless New York man (looking very much like Charlie Chaplin) dreams about getting himself a warm room and food, and tries various things to fulfill his dream - yet something always goes wrong.
Release Date1983-01-01
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count1
A screen version of Raimonds Pauls's musical based on Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie.
Release Date1978-01-01
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
A chemistry student causes an explosion during an exam. After that, she finds herself as a barmaid and spends the following evening in a cheerful company of musicians and cafe-goers, treating those present with drinks.
Release Date1968-04-01
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
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.
Release Date1976-08-31
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count5
A police is trying to fight the criminal organization responsible for the illegal export of arts abroad. He pretends to be a criminal to enter and destroy their gang.
Release Date1986-01-06
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count13
The wonderful power of folk songs and dances that helps to notice the beauty of the world and human relations.
Release Date1975-01-01
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Marcis Seglins, a retired factory craftsman finds a new hobby - training young workers.
Release Date1964-07-25
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
A collective portrait of the Latvian Red Riflemen is made up of memories told by the old men themselves. Unique and harsh are their destinies during the World War I and the revolution, at the opposite fronts of civil war, in 1930s. The victories of the Riflemen, their courage, confidence, pain and tragedy. The authors of the film have been able to save these tales from the relentless flow of time and make everyone realise the role of the Latvian Riflemen in history and nation.
Release Date1982-05-10
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count2
The summer internship of ninth-grade students from Riga at a mechanical plant.
Release Date1978-12-04
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
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.
Release Date1978-08-14
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Vote Count3
Performed by Renat Ibragimov, featuring songs by composers Raimonds Pauls, Almaz Monasypov, Rishat Abdullin and Boris Rivchun. Filmed on location.
Release Date1979-01-01
DepartmentSound
JobMusic Arranger
Arvīds Lasmanis can't hold any job for long because he is not ready to tolerate deceit and slapdash work. He still has to feed his family, by chance he finds a well-paid job as a gravedigger. A friend helps Arvīds to find a place in a construction team, but other workers don't approve of Arvīds' high principles. His wife accuses him of not knowing how to make money, the family lives crammed in one room of a shared flat. The Soviet absurd comedy tells a story about a man who, while at odds with the system, won't lose his conscience and his true self, even if it means saying no to wealth and comfort.
Release Date1975-11-26
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count5
People escaping from home. Escaping to a better life. Escaping from themselves to a globalized world. Over the last years, tens of thousands of Latvians have left Latvia in search of a better life in Ireland. This film reveals the way some of them live, far abroad from home and their families: their desires, emotions, life conditions and relationships.
Release Date2009-09-29
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Release Date1983-01-01
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
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.
Release Date1970-12-07
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
The action of the film takes place in Latvia and spans the period from 1939 to the early 1970s. The events that occurred in the country had various effects on the fates of the characters. But throughout it all, love guided them — it scattered and gathered, made them suffer terribly, and made them the happiest people in the world...
Release Date1982-06-02
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count11
In the 1966 the population of the Soviet Union was estimated at 235 million. A group of Latvian filmmakers traveled the length and breadth of the country to create a portrait of the diverse population.
Release Date1967-11-07
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count2
Gunar Berg is studying at the Polytechnic Institute. He is eighteen years old and comes from a well-off family. In order to not be financially dependent on his parents, Gunar decides to work as an orderly at a cardiology clinic. Here, facing human tragedies on a daily basis, Gunar will discover something important...
Release Date1978-01-03
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
An adventurous love story of a veterinarian from Riga, a cheerful loser Andris.
Release Date1977-12-05
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count1
After spending her entire life in the family farmhouse “Cīrulīši,” Zelma is faced with the painful prospect of leaving her home and moving in with one of her children. As the family gathers at the house, long-standing personal and everyday problems come to the surface: her son Elmārs, a newspaper journalist from Riga, and his wife Gundega, a successful researcher; her son Raimonds, the chairman of a neighboring collective farm; and her daughter, a doctor who lives nearby. Deeply concerned for her children and reluctant to leave the home that has shaped her life, Zelma struggles to come to terms with the changes ahead.
Release Date1980-01-03
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count1
A Latvian grandmother comes to visit her daughter in Los Angeles, where she encounters the surreal reality of life in America.
Release Date2019-06-14
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
A fishing vessel has been at sea in the Atlantic for six months when tragedy strikes its crew. Captain Arvīds receives devastating news that his young daughter has died after surgery, while young sailor Juris, on his first voyage to earn money for a car, is shattered by a telegram from his newlywed wife telling him she no longer wants him to return home. As grief, loneliness, and despair close in far from shore, the men are forced to confront the emotional toll of life at sea.
Release Date1976-12-26
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count1
A story about one of the houses inhabited by those who are forced to choose housing at the lowest price. Poor people live here, who have to struggle for existence every day. But despite the difficulties, people do not lose their dreams and help each other in a difficult moment.
Release Date1984-07-01
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count1
A crime story which take action in Riga Sea Port.
Release Date1991-06-06
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Vote Count8
Release Date1981-09-21
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
In one of the prestigious restaurants during banquet speech a large company's director Palmgren is killed in front of dozen guests . Case is lead by Criminal Investigation Officer Pierre Monson with his assistants. Suspect can be easily intercepted if only miserably lazy police officers Kvant and Kristiansson instead of catching criminal would not argue with father of little 3 years old boy who yelled: "Police, police, mashed potatoes" when they ate hot dogs. Help comes from capital in form of the famous Commissioner Martin Beck, who discovers that murdered industrialist was involved in illegal activities and had many enemies. The case is linked as well with government's "higher ends".
Release Date1979-09-08
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Vote Count1
With a traditional archery contest, the winner wins a silver arrow with gold lace and gold feathers. Even Robin Hood, although unrecognizable, takes part in this competition. As more and more participants are losing and Robin Hood eventually wins the award, his masquerade reveals. For none of the participants is as handy with a bow and an arrow like Robin Hood. With the help of his coolness and his friends Robin Hood may escape the dangerous situation.
Release Date1976-10-04
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Vote Count17
Release Date1990-01-01
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
The action of the story takes place around the Christmas time, when, as usually, the most unbelievable miracles come to life. The story starts with Masha - future doctor and meanwhile an eager student of medical university, her best friend Lilka - a colorful and charismatic young lady who is always in search of man of her life, and Masha's grandfather, Andrei Ivanovich, who is her only relative - a kind but deeply sad amateur painter. The heroes live their ordinary lifes with their worries and laughs until at Christmas Eve they receive a phone call... Three Aunties, who named them self as distant relatives, announce their arrival within an hour. With their arrival the story becomes dashing and somehow magical.
Release Date2014-01-09
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
In 17th-century Latvia, as Swedish and Polish armies march across the war-torn land, the corrupt councillors of Riga stand ready to hand over the city’s keys to whichever foreign power pays the highest price. But three jolly friends — Andris, Pēteris, and Ērmanis — together with their female companions Rūta, Anna, and Lēne, refuse to surrender without a fight. Rallying the people of Riga, they rise in a courageous struggle for freedom of their city.
Release Date1970-12-30
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Vote Count7
Riga in the 30s. Wild bohemian lifestyle is the name of the game for every artist worth his salt. A young man from the countryside, poor but ambitious, arrives in the capital, where he hopes to make his mark in the artistic circles. What follows is a string of events, fraught with confusion and misunderstanding, hilarious and heart-warming at the same time.
Release Date2018-09-26
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count9
A young girl is puzzled when she has to choose a husband. She cannot decide whether to marry her childhood friend or a recently met nouveau riche.
Release Date1966-02-14
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count2
Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his heart, all six fall under suspicion.
Release Date1976-06-06
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count7
A band arrives late at the competition. They try to find the jury and show their performance.
Release Date1972-07-11
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
