Uldis Dumpis

Acting

Uldis Dumpis

Born 1943-10-03 · Bauska, Latvian Republic

Uldis Dumpis (born October 3, 1943, in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian stage, film, and television actor, as well as a poet and translator. He has been a member of the Dailes Theatre since 1962 and has appeared in many Latvian and Soviet films, including The Long Road in the Dunes, The Fisherman’s Son, and Dangerous Summer. Dumpis is regarded as one of Latvia’s most recognizable actors, known for his warm and intelligent on-screen presence.

Acting credits

Blow, Wind! poster
4.0

Based on a stage play of the same name by the one of the biggest names in the history of Latvian literature Rainis, "Put, vejini" tells a story of an unconventional love that blossoms between the handsome, wealthy and impetuous merchant Uldis and the timid, humble and clear-hearted orphan Baiba.

Blow, Wind!

1973

To Be Unwanted poster
6.5

Valdemārs '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.

To Be Unwanted

1977

Strange Moonlight poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Strange Moonlight

1987

Wish Me Bad Weather poster
7.0

At 30, Margarita seems to have everything—a good career, a job, an apartment, and loyal friends—but she is still unmarried. When her friend sets out to find her a suitable husband, Margarita tests the candidates by pretending to be a single mother raising two children borrowed from her friend. But when she falls in love with a young pilot named Imants, fiction turns into reality after her sister dies in a car accident, leaving Margarita to take in and care for her sister’s two children.

Wish Me Bad Weather

1980

I'm In Love With Your Daughter! poster
6.0

A young guy from impoverished family moves to the big city and by unlikely chance falls in love with a girl who has a wealthy father. When planning their wedding, he asks his father-in-law for a significant amount of money and decides to keep a part of it for himself. To have the wedding on the cheap, he hires inexperienced wedding organizers and asks them to make it look as posh as possible for the low cost. His plan ultimately backfires when the organizers overdo it.

I'm In Love With Your Daughter!

2004

It's Easy to Fall Into an Overgrown Ditch poster
1.0

Latvia, 1980s. While striving for achievements in the Soviet kolhoz competition, people have forgotten to take care of their surroundings and their loved ones. The Latvian countryside is overwhelmed by alcoholism, and the chairman of the kolhoz is keeping the newly built culture hub locked up so that public would not "spoil it". Vitolds, the new secretary of the Young Communist League is ready to combat all the negative issues. However, it's important to do everything with moderation, as otherwise one may fall from one side of a ditch to another.

It's Easy to Fall Into an Overgrown Ditch

1986

Reflection in the Water poster
NR

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.

Reflection in the Water

1977

Light at the End of the Tunnel poster
7.2

A load of gold is stolen. Detectives make criminals play by their rules.

Light at the End of the Tunnel

1974

My Family poster
NR

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.

My Family

1982

Don't Shoot on the 26-th poster
7.0

1943. Soviet intelligence Saeed Islambek, "26th", manages to infiltrate as an instructor in the SS special school, where defectors from Central Asia study. Loyal to his assistants become a scout-Uzbek Nadia, Secretary of the chief of the special school, and Deputy chief of the Gestapo Berg. When one of the most important military tasks are dying, sacrificing himself, Nadia and Sayid.

Don't Shoot on the 26-th

1966

Ceplis poster
4.3

Latvia in the 1920s. The enterprising Edgars Ceplis establishes a company to produce bricks from Latvian clay for export. Many are involved in his project, hoping for the huge profits the venture promises. Ceplis soon becomes infatuated with his office typist Austra Zīle and starts neglecting the business...

Ceplis

1972

Beams Through Glass poster
7.0

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.

Beams Through Glass

1969

The Game Is Taking Place Anyway poster
8.0

A businessman and a footballer are murdered before an important football match in Prague. Investigation has to be started.

The Game Is Taking Place Anyway

1985

The Longest Straw poster
NR

Post-war Latvia. Francis' gang operates in a small town and the new KGB agent Juris Vilks has been asked to infiltrate his gang and gain his confidence.

The Longest Straw

1982

Dangerous Summer poster
7.0

A historical drama about an attempt to steal the entire Latvian national wealth deposited abroad by Wilhelms Munters, the Latvian Foreign Minister in the forties.

Dangerous Summer

2000

Wagtail's Army poster
6.1

The civil war in Russia, guerrillas fighting with Kolchak formations. As a result of sabotage, accident with white Russian train takes place. In disaster area the flag with the inscription "Wagtail's Army" is found. Kolchak commanders think that they are Bolsheviks, but guerrilla leader does not know anything. It turns out that this is work of three boys.

Wagtail's Army

1964

Keys to Paradise poster
6.3

Successful work and life of a brave militia captain who does not know much about human psychology.

Keys to Paradise

1976

Mainai poster
10.0

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov.

Mainai

1979

Littlefinger poster
4.9

Little Littlefinger's evil stepmother exploits him amd makes his life very hard, so the little shepherd boy decides to leave home and seek happiness in the world outside. There little Littlefinger meets the Wind Mother, Forest Mother and a little old man on his way. Each of them gives him a chore to do that earns him a gift with magical power, which comes in handy when he has to defeat Scrooges, Lop-Eared Man and the Devil himself. While traveling in the world and looking for happiness, he realises he misses his grandmother and little sister...

Littlefinger

1987

Defying Fate poster
NR

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.

Defying Fate

1975

Emil's Mischiefs poster
6.9

Young Emil lives with his parents and younger sister on a small farm. Emil's kindness and energy make him interfere with everything around him, but the results are usually not what he intended.

Emil's Mischiefs

1985

No artwork available
8.0

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.

Cīrulīši

1980

Spanish Version poster
NR

A story of a Latvian journalist spying for USSR in Spain during the civil war.

Spanish Version

1980

Fear poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fear

1986