The best Rolands Zagorskis’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Rolands Zagorskis’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Rolands Zagorskis.
Ceplis
7.4/10
Action takes place in Latvia in 1920-thies. Entrepreneurial Edgar Ceplis establishes a joint-stock company to produce and export clay bricks. A strory about the destructive human features: envy, greed, selfishness, cynicism, cruelty.
Rally
5.7/10
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.
The Zitars
7.7/10
Tragedy of the Zitars family based on the novel by Vilis Lacis.
Attack On The Secret Police
Apbraucamais ceļš
A group of people get cut off from the rest of the world during a snowstorm.
A Boy
7.1/10
A story of a boy living in a small Latvian village at the end of XIX century.
Maritime Climates
The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power hadn’t got worried by the rushes they saw, which lead them to terminate the production. In 1992, Rolands Kalniņš made this edit of the remaining material – an elegy to lost hopes and illusions.
The Hunt
5.4/10
After the lives of several people are tied into a intriguing knot upon meeting police officer Krasts one hot summer day, they’re all brought together again on a full moon winter night. Intrigue develops among a couple of lovers, Gints and Elga, three adventure-race participants with one woman, Renate, on their team, three generations of a family whose father, Karlis, died in a tragic hunting accident, Karlis’s daughter Aija, his former lover Livija, and a young girl hardened by life, who lives at a Christian home for expectant mothers. A detective twist is added by a bit of poison, which one of them will get.
Motorcycle Summer
6.7/10
On his 18th birthday, Māris receives a motorcycle from his parents, and, while driving around with his friends, they pass a wedding car. The bride, Inese, is entering a loveless marriage, so she allows Māris to "steal" her from the wedding reception. They take a romantic ride and end up spending the night at a remote house in the countryside. They spend the following night in the forest by a campfire, but in the morning Inese is missing. Māris swears to find her and prove his newfound love.
Fronte tēva pagalmā
Īsa pamācība mīlēšanā
Egle rudzu laukā
Two steps from "Paradise"
1944 year. Carpathians. Soviet intelligence officers were tasked with detecting and destroying a strategically important enemy object - a uranium ore warehouse, encoded by the nazis under the name "Paradise".
