Jānis Grantiņš

Acting

Jānis Grantiņš

Born 1909-06-07

Acting credits

Shoot in My Place poster
NR

1917. In Petrograd, a young Latvian boy Jezups signs up to work for the revolution and is sent to central Russia to show films and campaign for joining the Red Army. Jezups is a naive idealist and would rather not touch weapons at all, but life destroys his belief that it is possible to do without violence. In the end, Jezups is forced to understand that the ideals of the revolution must be defended not only with a film projector, but also with a machine gun.

Shoot in My Place

1971

Rita poster
9.0

The last summer of World War II in a Latvian fishing village. Ten-year-old Rita risks her life to care for and provide everything necessary for four prisoners of war rescued by fishermen—a Frenchman, a Russian, and two Latvians—who are hidden in the attic of a school converted into a warehouse by the German army.

Rita

1958

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

War and Peace poster
7.6

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

War and Peace

1968

The Warrior of the Queen poster
NR

The hard work plays an important role in the personal growth of a runner.

The Warrior of the Queen

1970

Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill poster
5.2

The 30-year war still goes on. Riga headmasters have decided to submit themselves to mercy of Polish-Lithuanian Duke. Rigas' defenders disagree strongly and steal the ceremonial Key of Riga. Will they succeed in their fight against all odds? Will three Latvian musketeers have their happily ever after?

Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill

1972

Pieviltie poster
9.5

After becoming a teacher, Janis Lazdan returns to his native village in Latgale. In Novie Gudani, he sees black cassocks everywhere. Nuns sit at the bedside of his sick mother. The girl he loves, Lienite, is dressed in the black habit of a novice. Anton, Janis' childhood friend, has become a priest. A struggle begins between Janis and Anton, a subtle psychologist, over Andris, a sickly boy who is extremely impressionable and gifted. Janis understands that the power of the church lies in the indifference of non-believers. He believes in his own strength and love for his loved ones.

Pieviltie

1961

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

The Fisherman's Son poster
NR

The 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

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 poster
7.6

In 1812, as Napoleon's army invades Russia, Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the armies' impending confrontation. As the Battle of Borodino rages, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Part three of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

1967

The Last Fort poster
NR

Four soldiers of different nationalities serve in small garrison on the territory of post-war Germany.

The Last Fort

1972

Me, Francysk Skaryna poster
NR

A film about the Belarusian publisher and educator Francis (Georgy) Skaryna, who lived in the first half of the 16th century, the founder of the first Belarusian printing house in Vilnius and the author of fundamental research in the field of linguistics.

Me, Francysk Skaryna

1970

Autumn Storms poster
NR

For some time now, life in the family of Kozma Josan, the chairman of a collective farm in one of the Moldovan villages, has not been going well. In response to the indifference of his wife, Domnica, the Goat fell in love with Olga, a fellow villager, who reciprocated his feelings. But their happiness is like wormwood, bitter: everywhere they are haunted by Domnica's heavy gaze, in which anxiety and pain are frozen.

Autumn Storms

1974

No artwork available
NR

A film about combating venereal diseases.

Atmaksa

1962

Tobago Changes Course poster
6.5

Summer, 1940. Foreseeing the collapse of the Ulmanis regime, the owner of a ship sailing off the coast of Latvia decides to flee the country. Subsequently, the sailors learn about the establishment of Soviet power in their homeland, and the ship changes course...

Tobago Changes Course

1966

No artwork available
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Olegs and Aina

1974

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

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

The Ruins Are Firing… poster
6.0

The plot centers on the people who began to form underground groups from the very first days of the occupation of Minsk: oil engineer Isa Kazinets, soldier Ivan Kabushkin, student journalist Vladimir Omelianuk, medical professor Yevgeny Klumov, party and Soviet worker Sergey Blagorazumov, and others. Their main weapon was their hatred of the occupiers. Soon, the underground fighters managed to establish contact with the partisans, and they began to plan joint operations.

The Ruins Are Firing…

1971

Echoes of the Past poster
NR

The well-known scientist was a spy in Germany during the Great Patriotic War, and he managed to obtain information about a secret German facility.

Echoes of the Past

1971

Let's Remember This Day poster
NR

The events take place on the eve of the Great October Socialist Revolution. At the center of the film’s narrative is the судьба of a revolutionary grenadier regiment that played an important role in securing the victory of Soviet power in Belarus.

Let's Remember This Day

1968

Red Agate poster
NR

Young girl is looking for the rare red agate which she believes will cure her grandfather.

Red Agate

1973

Just a Life – The Story of Fridtjof Nansen poster
6.5

This dramatized documentary depicts the life and the actions of Fridtjof Nansen; an explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel laureate.

Just a Life – The Story of Fridtjof Nansen

1968

Starling and Lyre poster
6.0

Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German society and begin to work actively. At the end of the war, during the bombing of Berlin, fate separates them, but then they will meet in the new Germany and continue their work.

Starling and Lyre

1974