Laima Vaikule

Acting

Laima Vaikule

Born 1954-03-31 · Cēsis, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]

Laima Vaikule is a Latvian actress, singer, director, and choreographer, best known in Europe and in the former USSR for such popular hits as "Vernissage" and "Charlie," among other songs.

Acting credits

The Snow Queen poster
6.0

The New Year's musical film has everything that Andersen described in his famous fairy tale "The Snow Queen", but with the attributes of the modern world. The Snow Queen is a powerful woman who charms the young man Kai and promises to make a pop star out of him.

The Snow Queen

2004

The Golden Horse poster
6.0

An ancient Latvian folk tale is the basis for this colorful animated feature in the tradition of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. A vengeful sorceress casts a kingdom’s princess into a deep sleep at the top of an icy mountain, where she awaits release from the spell that will destroy the land. Of all the men vying for the honor, the shy outcast son of a family of thugs is the most unlikely. Director Kalnaellis brings a playful sense of humor to the characterizations and adds zippy contemporary elements including a chorus of wisecracking crows. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

The Golden Horse

2014

Dancing on the Roof poster
5.0

Victor spends his summer holidays with friends. Teenagers' entertainment is far from harmless. Having met policeman Pletnev, Victor begins to feel burdened by the holidays and dream of vocational school...

Dancing on the Roof

1985

In the Russian Style poster
8.0

A man uses a help of a mysterious woman to find his fiteen years old daughter who suddenly diappeared.

In the Russian Style

1991

Alice in Wonderland poster
NR

New Year's musical based on the well-known story by Lewis Carroll. Alice runs away from reality into a fairy tale and finds her love there.

Alice in Wonderland

2014

Stāsts par lielām dziesmām. 1. Latvijas Mūzikas Lielais koncerts. poster
NR

The musical film tells the story of the birth of a new tradition - the popular music festival and its core idea - to create real Latvian Music Festivals for the audience, which celebrate the diverse multi-generational musical values created in Latvia.

Stāsts par lielām dziesmām. 1. Latvijas Mūzikas Lielais koncerts.

2023

Old Songs About the Main Thing 3 poster
5.5

An unofficial sequel to the movie "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession". The events take place on New Year's Eve 1997-1998, 24 years after the events of the movie. According to the plot, the main characters (Shurik, Bunsha, Zina and Ulyana Andreyevna) are going to celebrate New Year's Eve, and the engineer Alexander Sergeyevich Timofeev (Shurik) decides to present his recreated (and modernized) time machine to the guests. Having gone to the XVI century, they find there an aged Georges Miloslavsky, who has been sitting as regent for 25 years instead of Ivan the Terrible, who has run away; the Tsar was so inspired by the profession of Zina and Yakin that he decided to try his hand at filmmaking and went to "Mosfilm" instead of the Tsar's chambers. In an effort to correct the disruption of the course of history, the heroes re-engage the time machine and travel back to the 1970s in search of the Tsar, who dreams of becoming an actor.

Old Songs About the Main Thing 3

1998

Little Red Riding Hood and Everyone poster
4.5

Mom sends her daughter to grandma's with pies and she meets a wolf on a forest path. However, the beast fails to deceive the girl. The heroes ride motorcycles, speak exclusively in youth slang, and the Wolf communicates with his "old rocker" dad via e-mail.

Little Red Riding Hood and Everyone

2008

Very New Year's movie, or Night at the Museum poster
3.5

Tertiary student Vasia Vasylkov receives the keys to the museum of various arts for one night from the watchman. The main requirement is that all exhibits must be in their places in the morning. But the main character, of course, does not obey the watchman's instructions, so he plunges into a whirlwind of magical adventures, meeting ghosts, Casanova, Assol, Dracula, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo, Red Riding Hood, and Snow Queen.

Very New Year's movie, or Night at the Museum

2007

The House by the Salt Lake poster
NR

The film is based on the complex intersections of human destinies during the Patriotic War. The family of the headmaster of the school, Turlyzhan Zhanakov, with their participation and care for disadvantaged people, show the high moral values inherent in Kazakhs. The house by the salt lake became a home for immigrants and evacuees and became a kind of Noah's Ark for the post-war future.

The House by the Salt Lake

2004

Old Songs about the Main Thing 2 poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Old Songs about the Main Thing 2

1997