Harijs Liepiņš

Acting

Harijs Liepiņš

Born 1927-12-15 · Terneja parish, Valmiera county, Latvia

Harijs Liepiņš (born December 15, 1927 – August 3, 1998) was a Latvian theater and film actor.

Acting credits

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

Gift for a Single Woman poster
3.8

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?

Gift for a Single Woman

1973

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

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

Storm poster
7.5

After losing his job, Kārlis is forced into grueling work at a remote peat quarry—only to find himself caught between the Communist underground and the Latvian counterintelligence service, where every choice carries a moral cost.

Storm

1961

The Times of the Surveyors poster
6.0

Land surveyors arrive in two parishes to measure and redistribute manor land. The rivalry between both feoffees for land and woman begins.

The Times of the Surveyors

1968

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

Naughty Curves poster
5.7

When Vaike, a student and athlete from Tartu, arrives to Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa speedway, the bikes are already racing with dizzying speeds. The same dizzying adventures will be ahead, when Vaike meets multiple-times champion Raivo, who has been dizzied with sports progress and young ladies, and with champion candidate Heino, who helps Vaike to prepare for competition. Vaike cannot “hold her horses” alone and counts for her sister Maret, who also in past have had helped her out from similar difficult situations. But this time also comes into play Maret’s fresh husband Ants, who is convinced that he no more mix up the twin sisters.

Naughty Curves

1959

Madness poster
6.1

Before the end of the Second World War, a special commando marches into a mental hospital located in a beautiful manor house to eliminate the patients. But the Gestapo has received an anonymous letter saying that an enemy agent is hiding among the madmen. Officer Windisch is tasked with finding a simulant among several hundred mental patients in a matter of days.

Madness

1969

Nauris poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nauris

1957

Ice Run poster
6.0

Two proud fisherman families live on a very small island in Estonia. The two fishermen have always bore a grudge against each other. Their stubbornness and disobedience to German occupiers leads to dramatic events where staying alive is worse than death. Since it is impossible to escape public contempt, they have to decide how to redeem themselves.

Ice Run

1963

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
NR

A man returns to his village after many years away with his new wife in tow.

Stranger in the Village

1958

Spanish Version poster
NR

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

Spanish Version

1980

Dangerous Curves poster
8.0

A romantic comedy about two rival motorcyclists who are in love with two twin sisters. It is a remake of the 1959 film Naughty Curves and was the first film shot in the Soviet-designed Kinopanorama format.

Dangerous Curves

1961

The Kotsiubynsky Family poster
8.0

The events of the film cover the story of the Kotsiubynsky family in the years 1912-1918, ending with the defeat of the Central Rada and the establishment of a Soviet republic in Ukraine in the spring of 1918.

The Kotsiubynsky Family

1970

Honore de Balzac's Mistake poster
8.0

It is a story of the relationship of A French writer and a beautiful duchess Ganskaya. The events take place in a picturesque estate of the aristocrat on the Ukrainian land, which is under the power of Polish landowners. Ganskaya is considered to be the most important woman in Balzac’s life.

Honore de Balzac's Mistake

1969

Long Road in the Dunes poster
5.9

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...

Long Road in the Dunes

1982

The Cool Guy poster
6.0

Soviet engineer Viktor Loginov, who came to one of the East as a technical representative of the Minsk Automobile Plant, had to take part in an international rally due to the illness of a professional racer. Among the experienced aces from other countries, Victor was a beginner. Many representatives of foreign firms are interested in losing in the most difficult struggle. This would give an occasion to close the path to the world market for the new Soviet machine. But courage, mutual assistance and self-confidence help Victor overcome all stages of the most difficult path, where the danger came from both nature and people.

The Cool Guy

1972

Gifts over the Phone poster
4.7

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

Nazis and Blondes poster
6.0

Veteran actors from the 3 Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - gather at a castle in Latvia to receive awards for their roles as Nazi villains in propagandist Soviet war films. They reminisce about the films that made them famous throughout the USSR, but also stigmatized the Baltic countries as Nazi sympathizers in the eyes of many Russians - a misconception that is nowadays exploited by the Russian media, desperate to label the Baltic countries as a fascist haven.

Nazis and Blondes

2008

And Entering the Ring... poster
NR

The story of Rufat Kudratov, his difficult path to success, victory and fame as a boxer.

And Entering the Ring...

1980

To a New Shore poster
8.5

The dramatic fates of the Līdumu, Tauriņu, and Pacepļu families from the 1920s to the 1950s. The conflict between the Līdumu and Tauriņu dynasties as a class struggle, ending with the victory of the Līdumu family.

To a New Shore

1955

Following the Swan Flock of Clouds poster
9.5

The first film in a duology based on the biography of Latvian revolutionary Jānis Fabricius. Mārtiņš Venta, the son of a forest ranger, enrolls in a Riga gymnasium and becomes an underground activist, while his classmate, Dace, a teacher's daughter, is expelled from the Riga school for singing the revolutionary song Kā gulbji balti padebeši iet. Dace becomes an actress, but Mārtiņš is drafted into the tsar's army. He refuses to participate in the shooting of a workers' demonstration and is sentenced to exile, but before his deportation, Mārtiņš is allowed to marry Dace in prison.

Following the Swan Flock of Clouds

1957