
Acting
Jānis Kubilis
Born 1923-07-24 · Nereta, Republic of Latvia
Acting credits
7.0The 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
8.0A 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
NRAn inspector is torn between her conviction of there being a need to reconstruct a factory, and a love interest who asks of her not to do that in order for him to further his career.
Your Happiness
1960
NRAustra arrives to a small Latvian town to work for a state institution and faces disinterest and carelessness from her colleagues. Her other troubles include a difficult relationship with her daughter and a sudden falling in love.
Keys of the City
1973
NRThe 1930s. Young fisherman Oskars Klava dreams of new nets to help him gain independence from the collector Garoza but he lacks the trust of old fishermen.
The Fisherman's Son
1957
9.5The 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
5.9A young detective is trying to find a hiding Nazi collaborationist who is responsible for deaths of a hundreds of people during WWII.
State Offender
1964
Greve hatred of the new world is growing stronger. But explosives are stored under the rocks of Old Riga. Event coincidences becomes too threatening.
Sword and Rose
1959
NRA story about children helping the Soviet Army during the war.
In the Underworld
1963