Oļgerts Kroders

Acting

Oļgerts Kroders

Born — Died

1921-08-09 — 2012-10-10

Place of birth

Riga, Latvia

Known for

Acting

Credits

23 titles

Oļģerts Kroders was a Latvian theatre director, actor, and pedagogue of stage art.

Known for

Spider poster
5.0

A young woman agrees to model for an artist as the Virgin Mary. His strange influence triggers her repressed sexual urges, causing her to have delusions and nightmares about spiders and other grotesque imagery.

Spider

1992

The Testament of Professor Dowell poster
5.4

For many years, a prominent scientist had been striving to solve the problem of immortality. He shared the results of his daring and risky experiments with his colleagues. But one day something happened that no one could have foreseen: the professor had disappeared. The best student and follower of Professor Dowell tries to use the results of his scientific research for criminal purposes.

The Testament of Professor Dowell

1984

Your Son poster
7.0

Architecture student Valdis is preparing to leave his pregnant girlfriend, who refuses to end the pregnancy. At the same time, his mother, respected doctor Vitrupe, hopes to marry hydroelectric engineer Korolyov, but Valdis cannot accept the idea of another man entering her life.

Your Son

1978

Gifts over the Phone poster
5.5

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.

Gifts over the Phone

1978

Special Destination Force poster
4.0

Intelligence-diversionary group of athletes who know how to shoot snipers, run, jump, feel free in the water and under water, to withstand the monstrous load of hand-to-hand fights, will be able to reach the goal only going together, passing the task as a relay. Seven of them. Among them is a girl swimmer. It will be the most difficult, the last stage of the journey. The plot is based on the real facts of the great Patriotic war.

Special Destination Force

1978

Ceplis poster
4.2

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

Film credits

2000s · 2 titles

1980s · 6 titles

The Testament of Professor Dowell poster
5.4

For many years, a prominent scientist had been striving to solve the problem of immortality. He shared the results of his daring and risky experiments with his colleagues. But one day something happened that no one could have foreseen: the professor had disappeared. The best student and follower of Professor Dowell tries to use the results of his scientific research for criminal purposes.

The Testament of Professor Dowell

1984

No artwork available
NR

When a prominent journalist, Jorgensen, is murdered, a West German newspaper assigns its leading reporter, Lobenstein, to investigate the case. As he follows the trail left by his dead colleague, Lobenstein discovers that the murder is closely connected to the subject of Jorgensen’s final journalistic investigation. Determined to uncover the truth, he finds himself drawn into a dangerous mystery where the story may be far more consequential than it first appeared.

Last Reportage

1986

Contract of the Century poster
4.5

In order to negotiate with West German financiers about the construction of the gas pipeline between Siberia and Western Europe, a delegation of Soviet foreign trade collaborators flies to Germany, where they immediately come under CIA surveillance: U.S. intelligence agencies are interested in disrupting the 'contract of the century.' ”...

Contract of the Century

1985

No artwork available
NR

A story about ten years old Raymond who wants to learn how to drive a car.

My Friend Socrates

1984

The Last Road poster
4.5

About the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel and died when he was 37.

The Last Road

1986

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

1970s · 10 titles

Your Son poster
7.0

Architecture student Valdis is preparing to leave his pregnant girlfriend, who refuses to end the pregnancy. At the same time, his mother, respected doctor Vitrupe, hopes to marry hydroelectric engineer Korolyov, but Valdis cannot accept the idea of another man entering her life.

Your Son

1978

Gifts over the Phone poster
5.5

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.

Gifts over the Phone

1978

Special Destination Force poster
4.0

Intelligence-diversionary group of athletes who know how to shoot snipers, run, jump, feel free in the water and under water, to withstand the monstrous load of hand-to-hand fights, will be able to reach the goal only going together, passing the task as a relay. Seven of them. Among them is a girl swimmer. It will be the most difficult, the last stage of the journey. The plot is based on the real facts of the great Patriotic war.

Special Destination Force

1978

Ceplis poster
4.2

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

The Risk poster
6.0

1944. On the Polish front, the fascists are building a secret defensive barrier. The task of obtaining the plans for the structures is assigned to a young intelligence agent, Maria, who must make contact with the frontline intelligence resident, Major Kurtz, behind enemy lines…

The Risk

1971

Doctor Evan's Silence poster
5.1

In the surreal aftermath to a plane crash at sea Dr. Evan an eminent scientist is the only survivor to be taken into the confidence of the alien rescuers. He learns that the world with its weapons of mass destruction is not ready for the wonders of the culture of the pacifist visitors. The situation is further complicated by the close relationship that blossoms between the doctor and the female alien, and due to this relationship he is the only survivor allowed to retain his memory of the events, unlike the other survivors including his wife, whose memories are erased.

Doctor Evan's Silence

1974

Wait for the «John Grafton» poster
NR

At the beginning of the summer of 1905, representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Krasilnikov and Elkonen turned to Captain Zhanis Trautman, a Latvian political emigrant living on the outskirts of London, with a proposal to lead a steamer with a cargo of weapons to the shores of Russia. Having recruited a team of old and tried comrades, Trautman changes the crew of an English cargo ship bought by the front men. In the course of the squabble that arose on this occasion, a sailor of the old crew, David Blake, was stabbed. The wounded Blake and the veterinarian Gruber, who accompanied the cargo of anthrax drugs, are forced to leave on board. On the high seas, weapons and explosives were loaded on board. The steamer headed for the Oresund Strait, where a messenger was to meet him.

Wait for the «John Grafton»

1979

Motorcycle Summer poster
3.0

On his 18th birthday, Māris receives a motorcycle from his parents, and, while driving around with his friends, they pass a wedding car. The bride, Inese, is entering a loveless marriage, so she allows Māris to steal her from the wedding reception.

Motorcycle Summer

1975

Identification poster
4.5

Baron Karl Ludwig von Oster, the owner of a giant concern, one of the industrial magnates of Germany, convicted at the Nuremberg trials, was released by the American military administration and is now testing new weapons. The film is based on a judicial duel between a war criminal and journalist Ingrid Kuhn, the daughter of Professor Peter Kuhn, who paid with his life to prevent Auster from getting atomic weapons into his hands...

Identification

1974

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Port

1976

1960s · 2 titles

Series credits