Juris Strenga Movies

Student film by Arvīds Krievs

An omnibus film consisting of ten parts, each directed by a different young director from the Latvian Academy of Culture. The unifying element of the...

A businessman and a footballer are murdered before an important football match in Prague. Investigation has to be started.

The Second World War has just ended, but national partisans are still hiding in Latvia's forests and fighting against the Soviet regime. Ansis...

The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power...

A poetic psychological drama about the adolescence of the Ukrainian-Russian writer Nikolai Gogol filmed for Soviet television at A. Dovzhenko Film...

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...

The rich widow Marta Anker, owner of a renowned trading company, loves the poor fisherman Ansą Balčiai. The locals keep the ongoings under...

An ageing theatre star struggles with her mental condition and pending diagnosis, while preparing for a role. With the premiere approaching, she...

An adventurous love story of a veterinarian from Riga, a cheerful loser Andris.

Post-war Latvia. Francis' gang operates in a small town and the new KGB agent Juris Vilks has been asked to infiltrate his gang and gain his...

An easy-going, Blue-eyed Norwegian businessman seeking fame and fortune in the post-cold-war Riga. His involvment with a beautiful young Latvian...

At the beginning of the summer of 1905, representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Krasilnikov and Elkonen turned to Captain Zhanis...

Based on L. Yelisieieva’s short story "Far Away". In the 1920s–30s, a girl named Liolia grows up in poverty after her father is killed in...

Stylized as silent cinema, the film connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of...

A tory based on classical theatre play "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht.

In medieval Tallinn, a famous knight who is freed from the pirates of the Baltic Sea is murdered. The hero's head is cut off and his mouth is stuffed...

Based on the novel of the same name by Judah Waten. Beth Tyson is killed in his mansion. Chief Inspector Fields, Inspector Bramell, and Detective...

A story about a group of countryside children playing detectives in their village.

A meditation on Henrik Ibsen's plays "Brand" and "Peer Gynt".