Žanis Katlaps

Acting

Žanis Katlaps

Born — Died

1907-10-14 — 1968-11-13

Known for

Acting

Credits

6 titles

Known for

Mājup ar uzvaru poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mājup ar uzvaru

1948

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

Your Hands poster
NR

A propaganda film made while Latvia was occupied by Nazi Germany in the 1940s. A party of a wealthy socialite is disrupted by a friend's friend who's come along and turns out to be a soldier. The socialite starts wondering whether she could lend a hand to the war effort.

Your Hands

1943

After The Storm poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

After The Storm

1956

The Lark poster
5.4

Russian prisoners of war commandeer a tank and lead the Nazis on a cross-country chase in this World War II adventure drama. The Russians use their own tanks so the Nazis can use them as target practice to test a new anti-tank weapon. Knowing that death is near, the brave Russians run amok and tear down German monuments before heading out to a field where female slave laborers are working.

The Lark

1964

The Road Home poster
6.5

In one of the regions of Latvia occupied by the Nazis, the Germans arrest a peasant boy named Janis. His first escape ends in another arrest. This time, he is detained by his younger brother, who has become a policeman. After his next escape, his wife Ilga and daughter are sent to a concentration camp. Now Janis is ready to do anything to save them.

The Road Home

1946

Film credits

1940s · 4 titles