Vija Artmane

Acting

Vija Artmane

Born 1929-08-21 · Kayve, Sema volost, Tukums uezd, Russian Empire

Vija Artmane was a prominent Latvian film actress.

Acting credits

The Swamp Wader poster
5.2

Latvia in the late 19th century. Edgars, the coachman of Alaine manor, loves Kristine, the washerwoman's daughter, although he is too hot-headed for Kristine's mother to consider him a good suitor for his daughter. Servant Viskrelis and stable boy Sutka try to tempt Edgars to a life of drinking and a relationship with the barmaid Matilde. Meanwhile, Kristine is courted by a rich landowner, Akmentins.

The Swamp Wader

1966

After The Storm poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

After The Storm

1956

Gift for a Single Woman poster
3.8

To catch a couple of car thieves, a policewoman goes undercover as an old woman that recently has gotten a luxury car "Volga" - a plan that is bound to attract the criminals. For how hard can it be to steal a car from an old woman?

Gift for a Single Woman

1973

No artwork available
10.0

A story about a young girl Olga and her struggles with the Soviet marketing system.

The Last Indulgence

1985

A Man of a Retinue poster
8.0

According to the story of the same name by Vladimir Makanin. Mitya Rodiontsev, a young employee of the research institute, for some time now became one of those who were in the close circle of the secretary of the director Aglaya Andreyevna and felt well protected from the vicissitudes of fate. Having become a “retinue”, Mitya was no longer engaged in science, but was busy for those who needed him, openly respected him and saw him as a future leader. But once Rodiontsev was not invited to the director’s office for a weekly tea party...

A Man of a Retinue

1987

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

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

The Times of the Surveyors poster
6.0

Land surveyors arrive in two parishes to measure and redistribute manor land. The rivalry between both feoffees for land and woman begins.

The Times of the Surveyors

1968

Gladiator poster
7.5

Joonas and Tiidrik are two men from the island of Saaremaa who recklessly escape from the German prison during the First World War. Yet, there are no peaceful times in their home country neither.

Gladiator

1971

No artwork available
NR

The film tells of faithful devotion to spiritual ideals. It is based on Riga St. Anna Stocken's Life Story of the Cistercian Monastery of Mary Magdalene.

Anna

1996

Theatre poster
6.3

The great actress Julia Lambert suddenly realizes that she is, alas, getting old. What can help a woman who has absolutely everything? Only new love. And Julia falls in love with the first person she meets: an ambitious young man who has not a penny behind his soul. So begins a new life - a new romance and new tears. How else could it be?

Theatre

1978

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

Mainai poster
10.0

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov.

Mainai

1979

Kyiv Frescoes poster
5.2

Parajanov's collage of all the footage that remained from his film "Kyiv Frescoes," which was halted by the Soviet authorities who demanded that all the negatives be destroyed.

Kyiv Frescoes

1966

Strange Passions poster
7.0

It is the post-war era on the Latvian border, and the Lithuanian girl Maryte has located her relative, Antanas. Having been a farmhand on a rich farm as well as the lover of the owner's wife, upon his return from the war Antanas hopes to gain as much as he can from the collapse of the old world. The wife's daughter, Ausma, has since grown up and seems much more desirable to Antanas than his former lover. The historical situation makes for a tense atmosphere, because in the nighttime partisans may emerge from the forest, while during the daytime everyone must be careful to follow the new rules of life under Soviet rule.

Strange Passions

1983

Sea Gates poster
NR

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

Sea Gates

1974

Master poster
NR

Artūrs comes back to Riga after serving in army and faces changes because of his years of absence- his girlfriend has met another man, his work in a factory in a superior position brings changes to relationships with acquaintances.

Master

1977

Emil's Mischiefs poster
6.9

Young Emil lives with his parents and younger sister on a small farm. Emil's kindness and energy make him interfere with everything around him, but the results are usually not what he intended.

Emil's Mischiefs

1985

No artwork available
8.0

After spending her entire life in the family farmhouse “Cīrulīši,” Zelma is faced with the painful prospect of leaving her home and moving in with one of her children. As the family gathers at the house, long-standing personal and everyday problems come to the surface: her son Elmārs, a newspaper journalist from Riga, and his wife Gundega, a successful researcher; her son Raimonds, the chairman of a neighboring collective farm; and her daughter, a doctor who lives nearby. Deeply concerned for her children and reluctant to leave the home that has shaped her life, Zelma struggles to come to terms with the changes ahead.

Cīrulīši

1980

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

Your Son poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Your Son

1978

Blood Ties poster
4.5

Tank crew Officer-member Fedotov on the way from a hospital on visiting home became acquainted with young Sonya, mother of three children. After demobilization went back to her. Happiness of them was short. Sonya became ill and died. Soon her husband arrived after children, but left with a father only junior.

Blood Ties

1964

Nobody Wanted to Die poster
5.5

The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between the Soviets and the "brothers in the woods", who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets after the end of the Second World War.

Nobody Wanted to Die

1966

Andromeda Nebula poster
5.6

Humans on spaceship named "Tantra" are exploring the unknown part of the Universe. The spaceship gets trapped by the mysterious Iron Star, and the Iron Star's powerful force of gravity is to hold the spaceship for 20 years. The humans are facing a very tough survival challenge.

Andromeda Nebula

1967