Uldis Dumpis Movies

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 ten shorts is the place where they take place - the airport. A lot can happen there - including a strike by a...

When old auntie Mirta succeeds in a lottery and wins a car, which she cannot use herself, different family members are suddenly there to 'be helpful' in favor to get the car after aunties' death, not to mention, they never have come before to help her. The fun...

One summer, four guys met on the shore of the Gulf of Riga. Azamat came from Kazakhstan. His uncle, a partisan, went missing on Latvian soil. Katya is from Leningrad, and Arvid and Yazep are Latvians. Arvid's mother lived in Kazakhstan during the evacuation, Y...

A young guy from impoverished family moves to the big city and by unlikely chance falls in love with a girl who has a wealthy father. When planning their wedding, he asks his father-in-law for a significant amount of money and decides to keep a part of it for...

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

Successful work and life of a brave militia captain who does not know much about human psychology.

A detective and a militia captain are working together investigating a murder. When their job is done, the feelings do not let them say goodbye.

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.

The action takes place in Kurzeme in the 17th century. The Duke of Courland, the King of Poland and the German barons wants power over the Latvian people. Farmers are the biggest victims of this power struggle.

A Cold War spy thriller made at Dovzehnko Film Studio in 1984 and set in Munich. A Ukrainian poet visiting his emigre cousin is threatened into working for the CIA's operations through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

During an international rally two contestants find a hidden painting in the door of their car. In order to not get removed from the track riders do not report to their team management.

Veteran actors from the 3 Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - gather at a castle in Latvia to receive awards for their roles as Nazi villains in propagandist Soviet war films. They reminisce about the films that made them famous throughout the U...

Based on a stage play of the same name by the one of the biggest names in the history of Latvian literature Rainis, "Put, vejini" tells a story of an unconventional love that blossoms between the handsome, wealthy and impetuous merchant Uldis and the timid, hu...

Based on a story by Janis Lapsa, written by Janis Lapsa and Andris Kolbergs, film is a singular work, filled with human warmth. It is a story about a talented surgeon Markalns, who after a serious personal crisis, returns to his native town in order to start h...

The dawn of the XX century promised Latvians a prosperous and happy future. The nation’s self-esteem had awakened, and farmers were increasingly able to rise above even the estate stewards. Rudups, old soldier of the Kaiser and, with his wealth and pride, a th...

A load of gold is stolen. Detectives make criminals play by their rules.