Gunta Virkava

Acting

Gunta Virkava

Born 1951-01-28

Acting credits

Unfamiliar Case poster
6.0

A young girl is looking for her long lost father while visiting Riga during winter vacations.

Unfamiliar Case

1985

No artwork available
7.0

At fifty years of age, film director Ivars Jansons has been unlucky in both his personal life and his creative work. Something inside him has broken under the constant pressure of compromise. Having left the big city and returned to his homeland, Ivars tries to rebuild his broken relationships with his wife, his son who grew up without him, and his friends who are trying to revive their creative imagination with the help of memories. The illusion of returning to the dreams and ideals of his youth and his selfish focus on himself prevent him from deeply and truly feeling the experiences of his loved ones and averting the impending tragedy.

Sižeta pagrieziens

1988

No artwork available
NR

Ten-year-old Čurkstiņš is both an ordinary and unusual modern boy who, in his wanderings around the outskirts of his town, is never far from his two passions: his camera and his white cat, Watson. Čurkstiņš has a rich library of detective novels at home. The books he has read clearly influence his perception of the world around him, but the boy also possesses enormous patience and a sense of honesty. All of this suggests that he has the potential to be a talented investigator. During the course of the film, the boy, without realizing it, has done his first investigative work, exposing the cunning money-grabbing and hiding mechanisms of the fisherman Mellup. Čurkstiņš has evidence that the police officers lack. Gathering this evidence, of course, involves difficulties, risks, and clever solutions, which also form the plot of the film, but it all began with the lies of adults, against which the little boy protests internally and begins his great work.

Kroņa numurs

1986

Keys of the City poster
NR

Austra arrives to a small Latvian town to work for a state institution and faces disinterest and carelessness from her colleagues. Her other troubles include a difficult relationship with her daughter and a sudden falling in love.

Keys of the City

1973

The Courage to Kill poster
NR

Erik lives by night. He works in a nightclub and occasionally dresses up as a woman to rob rich clients. One day Erik's father arrives uninvited. It's a surprise visit that brings out memories of complicated childhood.

The Courage to Kill

1993

Night Shift poster
NR

Imants is a security guard at a small town store. He is always nice, honest and truthful and would not let anything happen to the store and to the people that are working there, until one night when his honesty and truthfulness are set to a test. He has been given a choice – stay and be dishonest with himself or leave and open has hart to love. The choice seems easy, but it takes some courage to step out of a place where you have been for ages.

Night Shift

2018

Stranded poster
NR

Screenwriter Vasiliev became interested in the fate of Lapinsh, the former captain of the supertrawler "Malachite." Lapinsh was removed from his position and stripped of his captain’s license after an accident that occurred more than six months ago—the supertrawler "Malachite" ran aground. The case was examined by the court. In search of the truth, Vasiliev followed the trail of these dramatic events...

Stranded

1988

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

Brothers Rico poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Brothers Rico

1980

The Cat's Mill poster
4.5

A white cat owns a mill, but loses the mill to a black cat and the devil.

The Cat's Mill

1993

Red Poppies of Issyk-Kul poster
9.0

Directed by Bolotbek Shamshiyev, the movie shows Kyrgyzstan under early Soviet rule; and tells us about opium contrabanda across the border.

Red Poppies of Issyk-Kul

1971

The Door That's Open To You poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Door That's Open To You

1984

Don Juan in Tallinn poster
5.7

Don Juan arrives in Tallinn and soon the gossip spreads like wildfire. The local women trip over themselves to be seduced by him; the men race to defend their honor by challenging him to a duel. What no one knows is that Don Juan is a woman in disguise.

Don Juan in Tallinn

1973

Izpostītā ligzda poster
NR

A family drama based on the short story "The Edge of the Abyss" by Raimonds Trasuns.

Izpostītā ligzda

1998

The Dubna River Rascal poster
NR

A little daring Mosquito does not know how to make friends. He is often intrusive and stinging. Everything changes when he gets into trouble. He understands his wrongdoings and starts to see good in others.

The Dubna River Rascal

2024

On the White Van's Trail poster
9.0

Three friends dream of purchasing St. Bernard puppies. But obstacles arise along their path, which require resourcefulness and ingenuity to overcome...

On the White Van's Trail

1992

Long live the children poster
NR

A group of boys go on their daily adventures while also facing many dangerous situations.

Long live the children

2005

Motorcycle Summer poster
3.0

On his 18th birthday, Māris receives a motorcycle from his parents, and, while driving around with his friends, they pass a wedding car. The bride, Inese, is entering a loveless marriage, so she allows Māris to steal her from the wedding reception.

Motorcycle Summer

1975

Distraction for the Soul poster
9.0

Based on the novel by same name by Vladimir Makanin. A cabinetmaker falls in love with a poetess who is courted by a university professor. The cabinetmaker has a wife and two high school sons. He is confronted with a difficult choice between family and beloved woman...

Distraction for the Soul

1990

Him, Her, and the Kids poster
7.7

Slava and Valeria, as both single parents, share similar circumstances and lives in the same neighborhood. They meet and become necessary for each other, but their children struggle with adapting to their new situation and their parents' happiness.

Him, Her, and the Kids

1987

Old Plane Tree poster
NR

About the family of the old man Achila-Buva, about his children and grandchildren living in an Uzbek village, about an old plane tree covering the saplings with its branches.

Old Plane Tree

1974

When Rain and Wind Hit Against Your Window poster
10.0

The Second World War has just ended, but national partisans are still hiding in Latvia's forests and fighting against the Soviet regime. Ansis Leinasars, who has been tasked to spark a coup in Latvia, arrives by night from across the sea, but his work is hampered at every step. His last hope is a meeting with the partisans in a church...

When Rain and Wind Hit Against Your Window

1967