Jānis Kubilis

Acting

Jānis Kubilis

Born — Died

1923-07-24 — 2024-06-16

Place of birth

Nereta, Republic of Latvia

Known for

Acting

Credits

9 titles

Known for

Your Happiness poster
NR

An 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

Keys of the City poster
NR

Austra 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

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

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

State Offender poster
5.8

A 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

Film credits

1960s · 4 titles

1950s · 3 titles