Arnis Līcītis

Acting

Arnis Līcītis

Born 1946-01-08 · Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]

Arnis Līcītis (January 8, 1946 – January 21, 2022) was a Latvian actor. Born in Riga in 1946, Līcītis was the son of actors Alfrēds Videnieks and Helga Līcīte. He attended secondary school at Riga State Gymnasium No.1 and subsequently graduated from the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. He became an actor in the troupes of the Latvian National Theatre, the Valmiera Drama Theatre, the Latvijas PSR Valsts Jaunatnes teātris, and the Riga Russian Theatre. He then began working for the Riga Film Studio in 1965.[

Acting credits

Mercedes Runs Away from the Chase poster
5.2

The film is set during World War II. After capturing the "trophy" Mercedes, a group of scouts, disguised as German officers commits a daring raid behind enemy lines (the 116th Motorized Division) on roads controlled by the enemy.

Mercedes Runs Away from the Chase

1981

No Right to Fail poster
5.4

Based on the stories of G.Seversky. Events taking place in the besieged Sevastopol during the WWII.

No Right to Fail

1984

What Nobody Can See poster
3.8

Elsa falls in love with a quadriplegic genius, her patient Nicola, whose mansion hides a secret – Nicola is obsessed with the creation of an artificial intellect. His creation, named Anna, stops at nothing to keep her master just for herself.

What Nobody Can See

2017

Dangerous Summer poster
7.0

A historical drama about an attempt to steal the entire Latvian national wealth deposited abroad by Wilhelms Munters, the Latvian Foreign Minister in the forties.

Dangerous Summer

2000

Primary Russia poster
5.0

The film takes place in pre-Christian Russia, when Ratibor united the East Slavs into one army against the nomadic Khazars.

Primary Russia

1986

Jam poster
NR

"In the world of the fly," says biologist Uexkull, "we find only fly things. In the world of the sea urchin we find only sea urchin things." This is the Colonel’s story and here you will find only Colonel things.

Jam

2001

Hard to Be a God poster
6.0

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...

Hard to Be a God

1990

Kill Me! Please! poster
NR

Lera is an Olympic shooting champion. When she was unjustifiably disqualified on charges of doping, she suddenly became unwanted. During her brilliant career, American specialists offered to perform free surgery on her seriously ill mother, but when the disqualification scandal broke, they demanded full payment from Lera. Desperate, the girl accepts an offer to become a hitwoman. Vadim is a successful businessman who fell victim to a plot hatched by his own wife and subordinate. On his anniversary, he unexpectedly learns that, thanks to their efforts, he is now bankrupt. Unable to cope with the collapse of his dazzling career, he breaks down and decides to end his life. By chance, the apartment in an abandoned building, from whose window Lera is supposed to fire her shot, also attracts Vadim. By a twist of fate, the characters meet.

Kill Me! Please!

2008

Vilkolakio pedsakai poster
9.0

Alyoshin, a Soviet journalist working in Argentina, witnessed the kidnapping of photo correspondent.

Vilkolakio pedsakai

1987

Stranger poster
NR

In the center of a small town there is a liquor store, every day a long line of people rubs impatiently by it. Thirteen-year-old Zigis sees his father here more and more often. The faces of many alcoholics have already been stamped by degradation, there is indifference in their eyes, they have lost interest in life. The boy realizes that such a terrible future also awaits the person closest to him. Not expecting to get help from anyone, Zigis decides on an unusual step: he goes to Marta, a popular healer, to save his father. On the way, the boy meets different people and experiences different attitudes towards himself, gets to know the contradictions of life.

Stranger

1989

No artwork available
NR

A story about ten years old Raymond who wants to learn how to drive a car.

My Friend Socrates

1984

Favorite poster
5.4

Alan York is a race horse jockey who sees his friend and chief rival jockey fall to his death during a steeplechase race. Alan knows it could not have been an accident. He pursues clues while meeting a lovely young lady and her fascinating uncle, until he finally discovers why his friend died... and why he is next to die.

Favorite

1976

Adventure Firm poster
8.0

In the city, people disappear and die under mysterious circumstances. Commissioner Gard and Inspector Taratura believe that all these murders are the result of a war between two mafias. But journalist Chester has a different opinion. He is sure that the crimes are the result of the activities of "Adventure Firm" company. The company sells adventures to everyone who wants to tickle their nerves. The most expensive and interesting adventure is the “adventure without guarantee,” but in this case the company is not responsible for the possible death of the client. Wanting to understand the company's activities and write a report about it, journalist Chester buys himself the deadliest adventure....

Adventure Firm

1991

Fact poster
5.7

Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a few survivors, the testimony of villagers, and some of the Germans responsible for the killing, the film gradually reconstructs the event and its context.

Fact

1981

The Detached Mission poster
5.8

In the waters of the Pacific Ocean, regular maneuvers of the Soviet and American squadrons are taking place. After months of autonomous navigation, our military frigate heads to its home base. The distress signal received forces sailors to change course. The CIA arranges a provocation: on a secret American base, one of the missile launchers was prepared for a real strike on the enemy’s squadron. Instead of saving people, Soviet sailors will have to intervene in the deadly game started by NATO. At the cost of tremendous effort, the crew of one of the Soviet ships managed to prevent the catastrophe provoked by CIA agents. They enter a real battle...

The Detached Mission

1986

The Woman in White poster
6.3

Young aspiring artist gets a place as a teacher of painting on the estate of land-owner Fairlie, where his sisters Marian and Laura become his students. Returning home late in the evening, he unexpectedly meets a strange woman, dressed head-to-toe in white on a deserted road.

The Woman in White

1981

The Prisoner of If Castle poster
6.9

A Russian version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him

The Prisoner of If Castle

1989

My Little Wife poster
6.0

A sad story about love between Linas and Ruta - two young students in Vilnius.

My Little Wife

1984

Law of Corruption poster
4.7

Events of the film take place in both hemispheres. Presidents of countries, bosses of drug cartels, special agents and powerful secret service agencies from all around the world are the first hand participants of its events. The film begins with an account of a shocking yet quite ordinary skirmish - an average drug kin pin is beating one of his assistants with a golf club with a purpose of educating him, because the assistant's cell phone was quite unlawfully confiscated by an overly diligent secret service agent. The mutilated gangster understands the incommensurability of his guilt and the level of his fault, and becomes the first character who asks the question: What do we know about the world we live in?

Law of Corruption

2005

Ariel poster
7.0

Behind the high walls of the old Indian monastery, some businessmen organized a closed school of the occult sciences. The most capable student, the young man Ariel, who has the ability to levitate, once decides to escape from captivity. But the hunt begins on him

Ariel

1992

Дуэль. Пушкинъ – Лермонтовъ poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Дуэль. Пушкинъ – Лермонтовъ

2014

Sheriff's Star poster
9.0

1991 television film adaptation of Sidney Sheldon's 1970 novel The Naked Face.

Sheriff's Star

1991

Long Road in the Dunes poster
5.9

The action of the film takes place in Latvia and spans the period from 1939 to the early 1970s. The events that occurred in the country had various effects on the fates of the characters. But throughout it all, love guided them — it scattered and gathered, made them suffer terribly, and made them the happiest people in the world...

Long Road in the Dunes

1982

Big Little War poster
8.0

An action-packed film about the role of Mikhail Frunze in the liquidation of Father Makhno’s gangs in Ukraine.

Big Little War

1980