Karps Klētnieks

Acting

Karps Klētnieks

Born — Died

1910-10-04 — 1992-09-12

Place of birth

Valmiera, Latvia

Known for

Acting

Credits

8 titles

Known for

Springtime Frost poster
5.6

The end of nineteenth century. Maidservant Madara is in love with farmhand Andrs, yet she marries a rich and old household owner. As time passes, her heart hardens and things get complicated when Andrs returns to the neighborhood and Madara's husband dies leaving her widowed with a son.

Springtime Frost

1955

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

Ilze poster
NR

A political film based in Latvian countryside in 1947.

Ilze

1959

Kārkli pelēkie zied poster
8.0

A film about the intertwined fates of ordinary students and the artists of a youth theatre.

Kārkli pelēkie zied

1961

Kaugurieši poster
NR

In 1802, growing anger among Latvian peasants erupts after changes in taxation, placing an even heavier burden on the peasant population. After a series of meetings, the peasants resolve to use force to free those already arrested. Thousands armed with clubs and scythes rise up, but are driven back by troops and retreat into a nearby forest. As reinforcements arrive, mass arrests and brutal reprisals follow, and the courts sentence some of the rebels to lifelong exile in Siberia.

Kaugurieši

1941

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

Film credits

1950s · 3 titles