Armands Zvirbulis Movies

Can you honestly swear that at least once in your life you have not thought that robbing a bank is a good idea? Especially, if you're five years old...

Latvians have left their land for all corners of the earth over the last centuries – either driven out for disobeying the powers at large, or...

In 1941 almost 4,000 children under the age of 16 were deported from Latvia to Siberia. Some returned to Latvia, many perished, and many were left in...

Near the end of the Second World War, when it became clear that Latvia would be re-invaded by the Soviet Army, some 150,000 of its citizens fled to...

The children who were sent to Siberia in 1941 have not seen their fathers – in their memories they recollect: “My father was arrested, he...

A TV documentary about Latvian actor Uldis Pūcītis, featuring fragments from many of his films ("Swap Treader", "Four White Shirts" and...

This is a film about the return of an individual to the Far North, and to the past. Agapitova, Igarka – the vast lands of Siberia, to which...

An emotional, figurative and historical study of the memories of people who were deported to Siberia as children on June 14, 1941. The suffering of...

The protagonist of the film, Viktors, after losing his eyesight not only gets over depression and sense of estrangement but goes on living a...

The year 2011 marked the 70th anniversary of the deportations of June 14 1941, when 15 425 residents of Latvia (Latvians, Jews, Russians, Poles) were...

Interviews were conducted over a seven year period with 670 people who were deported to Siberia as children in 1941. Fragments of their memories form...

Andris Caune, Ojārs Grensbergs, Imants Grāvītis and Jānis Zemtautis spent many years in the Gulag camps. They survived. In...

The story of the world-renowned Liepāja-born cinematographer Eduard Tisse, whose wife was convinced it was he who created all the famous films...

A family drama.

John Dored was the first Latvian cinematographer to train with the famous Pathé, actively film on the front lines of WWI, and the only...

The elderly nursing home residents for years feel worthless and troublesome. But then a crazy idea strikes them - to waive their pensions and enroll...