Ivars Kalnins

Acting

Ivars Kalnins

Born 1948-08-01 · Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR

His father worked as a car mechanic, his mother maintained a household. Parents wanted his son to choose a reliable male profession, and from about the age of 14 Ivar began to combine his studies with work. Mastered the plumbing, then the repair of computer equipment. In 1974 he graduated from the Theatrical Department of the Latvian Conservatory. Vitola. After graduating from the conservatory, Ivar Kalnins settled in the Art Academic Theater named after Rainis. Theatrical salaries were insignificant, and Ivar was supposed to feed his family — his wife and two daughters. In the end, I had to remember youth and pick up a guitar. Currently, at home in Latvia, Ivar Kalnins plays in two theaters in Riga: the Small and the New. The Latvian cinema, which showed the world more than one masterpiece, you just need to remember. But Russian viewers can enjoy the new work of the actor.

Acting credits

Apple in the River poster
5.5

Two people fall in love. A film that started as a documentary.

Apple in the River

1974

Soul poster
4.3

A famous singer is going through the dark period of her life...

Soul

1981

Male Games in the Open Air poster
NR

Relations of two sportsmen who often forget that they are not the only ones in the stadium.

Male Games in the Open Air

1978

Skydrivers poster
9.0

At the flying club Zina met a cameraman aerial filming Sergey Leninym, very seriously engaged in parachuting and after a while in international competitions has become one of the contenders for the gold medal. But soon fell into the gorge, the helicopter in which there was Sergey. And then Zina firmly decided to leave the sport…

Skydrivers

1984

The Mills of Fate poster
6.8

A love triangle - a terminally ill university teacher, a blind girl and a young bard. In the background of it all - the wild arrival of the capitalism, political conflicts, city life and the beautiful nature of Latvia. In the end love will conquer everything, though not everybody will live to witness that.

The Mills of Fate

1997

Faithful Friend Sancho poster
8.0

Ten year old Sancho arrives to Leningrad and starts looking for friends.

Faithful Friend Sancho

1974

The Photo of a Woman with a Boar poster
4.0

The 1980s. Kārlis did his military service in Afghanistan and is now confined to a wheelchair. Before he left, he had fallen in love with the teacher Judīte, but she has now married a rich man...and poses nude for Kārlis' neighbour, the cynical photographer Rūdofs. Soon Rūdolfs is found dead, and Kārlis admits to having murdered him. But investigator Konrāds suspects that Kārlis is incriminating himself.

The Photo of a Woman with a Boar

1987

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

The Price of Head poster
7.0

Commissioner Maigret's new case. At the rate of his further service in the police.

The Price of Head

1992

Racket poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Racket

1992

No artwork available
8.0

St. Petersburg. Early nineties. The KGB is throwing all its forces into the search for Peter Hoffman, the legendary assassin who arrived in the northern capital to eliminate the bishop. Jim, a photographer, comes to the attention of Colonel Suvorov, who is responsible for catching a dangerous criminal. He looks like an ordinary foreigner, but if you look closely, the first impression will melt away like a haze. Why did he have a unique Faberge creation in his hands, for which he is being persecuted by people with the obvious intention of killing him? To clarify the situation, an irresistible security officer is sent to Jim. The beautiful woman falls in love with the photographer, follows him on his heels, helps solve the problems on which Jimmy's life depends, and, in the end, makes it clear to her superiors that this young man is not at all who he pretends to be...

Unknown

1993

Cry of a Dolphin poster
5.0

The crew of the new American strategic missile submarine "Archelon" is struck by an unknown virus. The command must decide on removing the submarine from combat duty and sending the crew to quarantine.

Cry of a Dolphin

1987

Hide-and-seek poster
4.0

A young woman, Regina, has been killed in her apartment. Investigator Anderson holds Regina’s husband as a suspect for a murder because he is unable to remember his location at the time of the fateful event. Gradually, Anderson is convinced that Oto has not only killed his wife, but he also tries to hide his true identity – notorious criminal Schmit.

Hide-and-seek

2001

The Duel of Kings poster
NR

When the leader of a brutal criminal community violates the rules of historical regulations for 15 years, a hostile chess player hits through a dozen bodyguards and begins a fight to restore justice.

The Duel of Kings

2022

Early Rust poster
5.0

Poor countryside girl Elza has been unsuccessfully looking for a job in Riga before she gets help from an acquantance. After that, fortune seems to turn and rich aged factory owner Ķikulis wants to marry Elza. Reluctant at first, she finally agrees but the marriage doesn't go smoothly.

Early Rust

1980

Капитан Фракасс poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Капитан Фракасс

1984

Inspector Goole poster
4.6

Sudden arrival of a police inspector in the middle of a bourgeois family's dinner party reveals various sordid and shameful secrets that may have contributed to the recent suicide of an impoverished young woman.

Inspector Goole

1979

Ilga-Ivolga poster
NR

The wounded Russian soldier Fyodor, risking his life, was sheltered on a Latvian farm by his grandfather and granddaughter. Ilga fell in love with him, but the war separated them. Fedor went to the partisans, and Ilga is killed by the Nazis. Only many years later Fedor came again. Here he meets a young woman very similar to Ilga.

Ilga-Ivolga

1974

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

White Dance poster
8.0

The 20s. Stepan Khomutov returns to the Kuban village of Talitsy from the front of the Civil War and decides to organize a commune in the former princely manor. The peasants, fearing both bandits and communards, wait for the outcome of the struggle. In this difficult situation, the former farmhand Alyona, the wife of a rich man, fell in love with the farmhand Ignatka, who by the weakness of his character joined the bandits and received the task to burn the village...

White Dance

1981

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №8. Part 2. Hunting for a Princess poster
5.5

Russia, 1736. The sixth year of Anna Ioannovna's reign. To strengthen the family of her female ancestors, the Miloslavskys, the Empress bequeaths the throne to the future son of her niece Anna Leopoldovna. There has never been such a thing in history that a non-existent child has become the heir. Meanwhile, for the sake of a worthy military alliance with Austria, the Empress trains Anna Leopoldovna and Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brauschweig. The mother of the future heir does not like the groom, and this is used by Peter, the offspring of Biron, and the Saxon envoy Moritz. The hunt for the princess begins between these two knights.

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №8. Part 2. Hunting for a Princess

2011

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №8. Part 1. Hunting for a Princess poster
8.1

Russia, 1736. The sixth year of Anna Ioannovna's reign. To strengthen the family of her female ancestors, the Miloslavskys, the Empress bequeaths the throne to the future son of her niece Anna Leopoldovna. There has never been such a thing in history that a non-existent child has become the heir. Meanwhile, for the sake of a worthy military alliance with Austria, the Empress trains Anna Leopoldovna and Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brauschweig. The mother of the future heir does not like the groom, and this is used by Peter, the offspring of Biron, and the Saxon envoy Moritz. The hunt for the princess begins between these two knights.

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №8. Part 1. Hunting for a Princess

2011

Mirror Wars: Reflection One poster
3.3

Mirror Wars: Reflection One is a post-cold-war thriller from the Russian point of view. Bad-guy British arms dealer Murdock (Malcolm McDowell) and numerous mercenaries and clandestine agents tries to steal a new Russian stealth fighter. Murdock is foiled by the hero, a patriotic Russian fighter-jet pilot who was recently branded a potential traitor because of his romantic fling with an alleged American ecologist. She was actually a shadowy intelligence operative before her untimely assassination in her lover's arms.

Mirror Wars: Reflection One

2005

Under the Upturned Moon poster
8.0

A fishing vessel has been at sea in the Atlantic for six months when tragedy strikes its crew. Captain Arvīds receives devastating news that his young daughter has died after surgery, while young sailor Juris, on his first voyage to earn money for a car, is shattered by a telegram from his newlywed wife telling him she no longer wants him to return home. As grief, loneliness, and despair close in far from shore, the men are forced to confront the emotional toll of life at sea.

Under the Upturned Moon

1976