Jānis Osis

Acting

Jānis Osis

Acting credits

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

No artwork available
NR

A man returns to his village after many years away with his new wife in tow.

Stranger in the Village

1958

History Lesson poster
7.5

In 1933 Berlin, Bulgarian communist Georgi Dimitrov is caught up in the Reichstag fire trials when Nazis seek to frame communists. Despite orchestrated provocations and mass repression, Dimitrov’s defiant courtroom defense exposes the baseless charges, forcing his acquittal and securing him political asylum in the Soviet Union.

History Lesson

1957

Mājup ar uzvaru poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mājup ar uzvaru

1948

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

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

Mikhail Lomonosov poster
7.5

A biopic about the life of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - Russian polymath, scientist and writer.

Mikhail Lomonosov

1955

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NR

Marcis Seglins, a retired factory craftsman finds a new hobby - training young workers.

Nowhere Else To Go

1964

No artwork available
9.0

A biopic of Rainis (born as Jānis Pliekšāns), a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician, whose works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism.

Rainis

1949