Juris Plavins

Acting

Juris Plavins

Born — Died

1934-03-02 — 2008-06-20

Place of birth

Latvia

Known for

Acting

Credits

26 titles

Known for

Long Road in the Dunes poster
7.5

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

Sea Gates poster
NR

A TV movie. The film features songs by Yu.Vizbor, V.Berkovsky, S.Nikitin.

Sea Gates

1974

Gifts over the Phone poster
5.5

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

Fact poster
5.7

Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a few survivors, the testimony of villagers, and some of the Germans responsible for the killing, the film gradually reconstructs the event and its context.

Fact

1981

Wait for the «John Grafton» poster
8.0

At the beginning of the summer of 1905, representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Krasilnikov and Elkonen turned to Captain Zhanis Trautman, a Latvian political emigrant living on the outskirts of London, with a proposal to lead a steamer with a cargo of weapons to the shores of Russia. Having recruited a team of old and tried comrades, Trautman changes the crew of an English cargo ship bought by the front men. In the course of the squabble that arose on this occasion, a sailor of the old crew, David Blake, was stabbed. The wounded Blake and the veterinarian Gruber, who accompanied the cargo of anthrax drugs, are forced to leave on board. On the high seas, weapons and explosives were loaded on board. The steamer headed for the Oresund Strait, where a messenger was to meet him.

Wait for the «John Grafton»

1981

Double Trap poster
5.8

A police is trying to fight the criminal organization responsible for the illegal export of arts abroad. He pretends to be a criminal to enter and destroy their gang.

Double Trap

1986

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

Fact poster
5.7

Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a few survivors, the testimony of villagers, and some of the Germans responsible for the killing, the film gradually reconstructs the event and its context.

Fact

1981

Double Trap poster
5.8

A police is trying to fight the criminal organization responsible for the illegal export of arts abroad. He pretends to be a criminal to enter and destroy their gang.

Double Trap

1986

Fronte tēva pagalmā poster
NR

In 1944, as Soviet forces establish control over parts of Latvia, Antons Paipala returns from the front to his native parish and becomes its first Communist Party organiser. As fighting with the forest brothers continues and the new Soviet order takes shape, Antons finds himself caught between political duty and family loyalty.

Fronte tēva pagalmā

1984

The Weather in August poster
9.0

A coming-of-age drama about a thirteen-year old boy Ilmārs, who suddenly gets entangled in his parents' relationship crisis as well as experiences his own first romantic feelings, too.

The Weather in August

1983

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

1970s · 11 titles

Sea Gates poster
NR

A TV movie. The film features songs by Yu.Vizbor, V.Berkovsky, S.Nikitin.

Sea Gates

1974

Gifts over the Phone poster
5.5

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

In the Shadow of Death poster
6.2

A group of men go under-ice fishing, but find themselves trapped on a piece of ice, that has broken off. As they are drifting through the sea, the tension between them rises.

In the Shadow of Death

1972

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

Ilga-Ivolga poster
NR

The wounded Russian soldier Fyodor, risking his life, was sheltered on a Latvian farm by his grandfather and granddaughter. Ilga fell in love with him, but the war separated them. Fedor went to the partisans, and Ilga is killed by the Nazis. Only many years later Fedor came again. Here he meets a young woman very similar to Ilga.

Ilga-Ivolga

1974

Captain Jack poster
7.0

Captain Jack, this is actually an ordinary girl, she is an informal leader among the boys, loves the sea very much and spends a lot of time on the decommissioned ship Signal. The film tells the amazing story of the Signal team, which during the war saved the lives of Soviet prisoners of war, among whom were Gunar and Mitya.

Captain Jack

1972

Checkmate to the Queen of Diamonds poster
5.4

A detective and a militia captain are working together investigating a murder. When their job is done, the feelings do not let them say goodbye.

Checkmate to the Queen of Diamonds

1973

Defying Fate poster
NR

The events of the film take place in Latvia during the 1930s to the 1950s. Klinta, a young, poor, and naive villager, studies music in a nearby provincial Latvian town. Her meeting with the owner of a wealthy farm, Olavs, becomes fateful for the girl.

Defying Fate

1975

Wait for the «John Grafton» poster
NR

At the beginning of the summer of 1905, representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Krasilnikov and Elkonen turned to Captain Zhanis Trautman, a Latvian political emigrant living on the outskirts of London, with a proposal to lead a steamer with a cargo of weapons to the shores of Russia. Having recruited a team of old and tried comrades, Trautman changes the crew of an English cargo ship bought by the front men. In the course of the squabble that arose on this occasion, a sailor of the old crew, David Blake, was stabbed. The wounded Blake and the veterinarian Gruber, who accompanied the cargo of anthrax drugs, are forced to leave on board. On the high seas, weapons and explosives were loaded on board. The steamer headed for the Oresund Strait, where a messenger was to meet him.

Wait for the «John Grafton»

1979

In the Shadow of a Sword poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

In the Shadow of a Sword

1976

Egle rudzu laukā poster
NR

During their summer placement at a collective farm, students from an agricultural academy are called upon to help with the most urgent work. When heavy rains threaten the harvest, the young people put aside their usual routines and join the farm workers in a race against the weather to save the crops.

Egle rudzu laukā

1972

1960s · 5 titles

Series credits

Long Road in the Dunes poster
7.5

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

Wait for the «John Grafton» poster
8.0

At the beginning of the summer of 1905, representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Krasilnikov and Elkonen turned to Captain Zhanis Trautman, a Latvian political emigrant living on the outskirts of London, with a proposal to lead a steamer with a cargo of weapons to the shores of Russia. Having recruited a team of old and tried comrades, Trautman changes the crew of an English cargo ship bought by the front men. In the course of the squabble that arose on this occasion, a sailor of the old crew, David Blake, was stabbed. The wounded Blake and the veterinarian Gruber, who accompanied the cargo of anthrax drugs, are forced to leave on board. On the high seas, weapons and explosives were loaded on board. The steamer headed for the Oresund Strait, where a messenger was to meet him.

Wait for the «John Grafton»

1981

The Last Flight of the 'Albatross' poster
9.0

A film novella about a Soviet spy, a pilot of the 'Condor' Legion, connected to the testing of the jet 'Swallow' by Willy Messerschmitt – the Me-262 (in the film, the 'Albatross') – and the disruption of a promising project during the Great Patriotic War.

The Last Flight of the 'Albatross'

1971

No artwork available
NR

Forty years ago, she went with her beloved to his home in Germany. Now she is back in her native land, but as a visitor. The paths to her childhood home, which no longer exists, are overgrown. The paths that lead to the hearts of loved ones are overgrown. Even her daughter's soul. She grew up without Velta's closeness. In 1949, the little girl, who was staying with Velta's sister, was taken with her family to Siberia. Broken lives, broken destinies.

Valsis mūža garumā

1990