Arnis Līcītis

Acting

Arnis Līcītis

Born — Died

1946-01-08 — 2022-01-21

Place of birth

Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

68 titles

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.[

Known for

The Saboteur 2: The End of the War poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

The Saboteur 2: The End of the War

2007

Fantastic Story poster
6.0

An old puppet maker tells his little friend the story of his first love.

Fantastic Story

1988

Musketeers Twenty Years Later poster
7.8

In turbulent times for France and herself, the first minister of the Kingdom of France, Cardinal Mazarin, asked Queen Anne of Austria to give him the names of four friends who successfully helped her in the fight against Cardinal Richelieu. Under pressure from Mazarin, Queen Anne calls the name D'Artagnan, lieutenant of the royal musketeers. Mazarin calls D'Artagnan and orders him to find Athos, Porthos and Aramis in order to attract them to his service...

Musketeers Twenty Years Later

1993

Long Road in the Dunes poster
7.5

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

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

Mirage poster
6.7

Tragic events in the lives of five people after they have stolen a car with one million dollars in the safe. This is the job they have all been waiting for. The job that will set them up for life. A million dollars split five ways, who wouldn't be interested? The only catch is that it's the very definition of impossible...or is it? Armed with a brilliant plan, the four men and one woman think they can crack it. But as tensions in the group begin to mount and things start to go wrong, the million dollars feels more out of reach than ever. Even though it is right with them...

Mirage

1983

Film credits

2000s · 6 titles

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

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

The Power of Fear poster
3.6

Ivan, a cynical journalist, is assigned to investigate mysterious events in a small town. During his first night, he is seduced by a strange and mysterious girl. As they embrace, she transforms into a hideous demon. Ivan fights the creature, managing to strangle it. But it is too late, Evil has been unleashed. When Ivan is charged for the brutal murder, he feels his last hope disappear. As he is overcome by the dark forces trying to pose as his soul, Ivan comes to realize that his only hope lies in his power to find the faith that he once lost

The Power of Fear

2006

Law of Corruption poster
4.6

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

Snow Love, or A Dream on a Winter Night poster
1.0

The story begins on New Year's Eve. The editor of the newspaper Orest Orlov offers the successful 35-year-old correspondent Ksenia to take a candid interview with the famous Canadian hockey player Denis Kravtsov. But everything is not as simple as it seems at first glance, because the journalist and the athlete had an affair 10 years ago...

Snow Love, or A Dream on a Winter Night

2003

Amber Wings poster
7.0

A story about love between two people who accidentally met in old Tallinn.

Amber Wings

2003

1990s · 13 titles

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

Cairo-2 Calls Alpha poster
4.5

Middle East in the Seventies... Soviet and Dutch officers are stuck together in the UN Observation Station.

Cairo-2 Calls Alpha

1990

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

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

Sniper poster
7.2

American Jay Benson has left behind the Vietnam War, in which he was an excellent sniper. After returning home and marrying the charming Lucy, the hero opens a shooting school. The only thing he needs for complete happiness is money. The first offer from a rich client promises good earnings - and Jay accepts it...

Sniper

1992

Sheriff's Star poster
9.0

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

Sheriff's Star

1991

Crusader poster
4.1

At the filming movie about the crusaders, in Turkey, with one of the stunts died in accident. Death of a stuntman was rigged by criminals, who smuggled a large shipment of drugs in the coffin. Producer Anton is killed, money stolen...

Crusader

1995

Lost in Siberia poster
5.0

The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag prison-camp in Siberia.

Lost in Siberia

1991

Тайна виллы poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Тайна виллы

1991

No artwork available
3.5

A middle-aged, alcoholic lawyer inherits a mysterious, unsigned will from his father.

Stalin's testament

1993

Art of Living in Odessa poster
5.4

The plot of the movie is based on books of Isaak Babel about Jewish criminals in city of Odessa before and after the Russian revolution.

Art of Living in Odessa

1990

Cruise, or Divorce Trip poster
NR

A funny story of a couple who decided to get a divorce. As a farewell, the heroes go on a foreign cruise. Sea, music... A woman meets men who claim a place in her past. This arouses the husband's ardent jealousy - and the dormant love comes to life...

Cruise, or Divorce Trip

1991

Depression poster
5.0

A crime story which takes place in Riga Sea Port.

Depression

1991

1980s · 34 titles

Fantastic Story poster
6.0

An old puppet maker tells his little friend the story of his first love.

Fantastic Story

1988

Emissary of the Foreign Centre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Emissary of the Foreign Centre

1980

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
5.9

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

Vilkolakio pedsakai poster
9.0

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

Vilkolakio pedsakai

1987

Rich Man, Poor Man... poster
4.8

An examination of the trials and tribulations of the Jordache family, from the period following World War II to the late 1960s.

Rich Man, Poor Man...

1982

Three Days of Reflection poster
7.0

Head of the CID and his colleagues are investigating a serious crime but the main witnesses are of no help.

Three Days of Reflection

1982

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

Fairfax's Millions poster
8.0

As the classic rightly noted, it is customary to treat the diseases of wealthy people with respect. Only a heart transplant can save the dying life of a millionaire Ferfax. In search of a suitable donor for his best client, Dr. Jones makes a series of killings. But he still does not know what reward awaits him for the services rendered ...

Fairfax's Millions

1980

My Little Wife poster
6.0

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

My Little Wife

1984

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

Plead Guilty poster
7.0

Criminal Investigation Officer Sergei Voronin takes his position by vocation. He created a club of young friends of the police, in which the guys go in for sports and meet interesting people. But he is worried about the company of guys who fell under the influence of a cynical high school student Nikolai Boyko, who "confuses robbery with prank."

Plead Guilty

1983

Cargo With No Markings poster
4.7

The assistant captain of a foreign merchant ship, Chief, contacts an international drug cartel. He agrees to transport a large shipment of drugs in unmarked containers. The markings will be added later, only at the shipper's request. Unexpectedly, the ship has to call at a Soviet port to refuel.

Cargo With No Markings

1984

Variant "Zombi" poster
6.1

The events take place in a fictional South Africa, where a group of neo-fascists conduct secret experiments on people, using psychological weapons.

Variant "Zombi"

1985

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

Oriole Is Crying Somewhere... poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Oriole Is Crying Somewhere...

1983

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

Playing Without Trump Cards poster
6.7

A policeman is investigating a murder in a secret research facility.

Playing Without Trump Cards

1981

Primary Russia poster
5.2

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

Primary Russia

1986

Kings of Crime poster
4.6

This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetoric, deaths of innocent people.

Kings of Crime

1988

To Be Taken Alive poster
6.6

Leytenant Astakhov is serving in the border where something serious happens almost every day.

To Be Taken Alive

1983

Brothers Rico poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Brothers Rico

1980

Nika's Heiress poster
8.0

During the war, the Nazis took the breeding horse Zarnitsa, winner of many international races, to Germany. But the horse refused to obey its new owner, jockey Shoiberg. Therefore, he was forced to release from captivity stableman Grigory, who took care of Zarnitsa before the war. Taking advantage of the situation, the stableman tried to escape and died. And Scheuberg decided to ride Zarnitsa after all, but at the finish line she threw off her rider and ran away. She was found and returned to her owner, and despite this, she tried many times to escape from captivity. Only at the very end of the war she was found by the stableman's son Lenka....

Nika's Heiress

1989

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

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

Victory poster
8.3

30 years after the end of World War II, a Soviet and an American journalist meet again for realizing post war paths of their countries.

Victory

1985

The Aquanauts poster
5.0

While doing their work on the deep underwater station two aquanauts discover strange mystery: it seems as if one of the aquanaut's girlfriend who recently died in a car crash had turned into a big manta fish. That manta writes words on the station's port-holes and tries to draw attention many other ways.

The Aquanauts

1980

Raspberry Wine poster
NR

Major Ģirts Randers arrives to visit his childhood friend Juris, who repeatedly tries to tell him something important but never finds the right moment. During a gathering at Juris’s home, he goes to the cellar to fetch a bottle of raspberry wine and never returns. When his wife Rasma goes looking for him, she discovers his body. Dismissing the possibility of an accident, Ģirts begins investigating the murder, convinced that the killer is among the guests gathered around the table.

Raspberry Wine

1984

I'm Staying with You poster
10.0

The last years of writer Arkady Gaidar's life.

I'm Staying with You

1981

Living Rainbow poster
6.7

A funny story based on Nikolai Nosov novels for children.

Living Rainbow

1985

No artwork available
NR

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

My Friend Socrates

1984

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

One-Way Ticket poster
NR

Fourteen-year-old Mick is taken to the police station for hooliganism. Here he makes up about himself that he is practicing acrobatics with coach Krylov. Now Krylov is summoned to the police. But the strange thing is that Krylov confirms the teenager's testimony, gives a surety for him and enrolls the boy in his group....

One-Way Ticket

1988

Two Versions of the Same Collision poster
8.0

An oil tanker flying the Liberian flag is sunk in the open ocean as a result of a collision with a Soviet dry cargo ship. The company sues the Black Sea Shipping Company and insists on a trial in New York. American lawyer Eugene Bogart and Soviet expert Ekaterina Kravchenko manage to find out that the steamship company, which owned the tanker, on the eve of bankruptcy. But it is not only that...

Two Versions of the Same Collision

1985

1970s · 4 titles

Series credits

The Saboteur 2: The End of the War poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

The Saboteur 2: The End of the War

2007

Musketeers Twenty Years Later poster
7.8

In turbulent times for France and herself, the first minister of the Kingdom of France, Cardinal Mazarin, asked Queen Anne of Austria to give him the names of four friends who successfully helped her in the fight against Cardinal Richelieu. Under pressure from Mazarin, Queen Anne calls the name D'Artagnan, lieutenant of the royal musketeers. Mazarin calls D'Artagnan and orders him to find Athos, Porthos and Aramis in order to attract them to his service...

Musketeers Twenty Years Later

1993

Long Road in the Dunes poster
7.5

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

Long Road in the Dunes poster
7.5

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

Mirage poster
6.7

Tragic events in the lives of five people after they have stolen a car with one million dollars in the safe. This is the job they have all been waiting for. The job that will set them up for life. A million dollars split five ways, who wouldn't be interested? The only catch is that it's the very definition of impossible...or is it? Armed with a brilliant plan, the four men and one woman think they can crack it. But as tensions in the group begin to mount and things start to go wrong, the million dollars feels more out of reach than ever. Even though it is right with them...

Mirage

1983

The Times of the Surveyors poster
10.0

The second half of the 19th century. The arrival of land surveyors in a Latvian village for the redistribution of land provoked a scandal...

The Times of the Surveyors

1991

Forgotten poster
7.7

The year is 1949. Former front-line soldier and former investigator Sergei Gastev departs from investigative activities, faced with an unexpected problem of official mutual assistance. Attempts to restore justice almost end up in prison for himself. Gastev decides to limit his activities to teaching Roman law at the university of a small regional town. In Sergei's personal life, too, everything is not easy: the affair with the city Komsomol leader Lyudmila Mishina has to be carefully hidden...

Forgotten

2011

Women Lie Better poster
NR

Marta will meet a charming and rich man, but love will blind her eyes and Marta will not notice the true intentions of her new sweetheart behind her rose-colored glasses.

Women Lie Better

2013