Oļģerts Dunkers

A story about a young girl Olga and her struggles with the Soviet marketing system.

1917. In Petrograd, a young Latvian boy Jezups signs up to work for the revolution and is sent to central Russia to show films and campaign for joining the Red Army. Jezups is a naive idealist and would rather not touch weapons at all, but life destroys his belief that it is possible to do without violence. In the end, Jezups is forced to understand that the ideals of the revolution must be defended not only with a film projector, but also with a machine gun.

Ten year old Sancho arrives to Leningrad and starts looking for friends.

Poor countryside girl Elza has been unsuccessfully looking for a job in Riga before she gets help from an acquantance. After that, fortune seems to turn and rich aged factory owner Ķikulis wants to marry Elza. Reluctant at first, she finally agrees but the marriage doesn't go smoothly.

Woman meets a man during a difficult post-WWII time...

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.

Alexei Infantiev moves through three life stages: a youth controlled by a dominant mother and consumed by obsessive love, a middle age crushed by the stifling monotony of Soviet daily life, and a quiet old age as a widower reflecting on a lifetime of isolation, unfulfilled potential, and emotional decay.

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.

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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.

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A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria. The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced into marrying Otto, a lieutenant, to save the troubled family economy.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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Slava and Valeria, as both single parents, share similar circumstances and lives in the same neighborhood. They meet and become necessary for each other, but their children struggle with adapting to their new situation and their parents' happiness.

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