17 Films & TV Shows Set In Latvia
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Escape Plan: The Extractors
Ohio California ๐ง๐พ Belarus ๐ช๐ช Estonia ๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong KongThis time itโs personal โ After security expert Ray Breslin is hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison, Breslin's girlfriend is also captured. Now he and his team must pull off a deadly rescue mission to confront their sadistic foe and save the hostages before time runs out.
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Adults in the Room
England ๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฑ๐ป Latvia The 2010sA universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.
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Blizzard of Souls
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia The 1910sThe love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined โ no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.
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The Pagan King
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania ๐ฑ๐ป Latvia The 13th CenturyLive free or die. โ Northern Europe. 13th century. Last pagan settlement near the Baltic Sea. The evil and cynical warrior crusader Max von Buxhoveden is trying to destroy the pagan beliefs of the people by spreading lies and fostering dissent. Old king of the last free pagan lands is on his deathbed and without an heir to take his place. Max wants to take over the throne and reign over old kingโs tribe. Unexpectedly, with his dying breath the King passes on his ring to his nephew Namejs. The youngster, who grew up amongst pagan priests and studied ancient wisdoms, now has to defend his people. Will he be able to unravel the secret of the Ring and gain its power?
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Baltic Tribes
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania ๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐ธ๐ช Sweden The 13th CenturyDocuDrama about 13th century pre-Christian culture. Danish spy Lars enters the tribal lands of the Baltic peoples, where he takes part in religious rites, cruel forays, gets high during the Summer Solstice, becomes slave to the Couronians and even fights the crusaders. Who were the last pagans of Europe and how did they live? It is a unique trip into the textures of the past and into the unknown lands of the Baltic Tribes.
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The Chronicles of Melanie
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940sThe 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get deported to Siberia. In her fight against cold, famine and cruelty, she only gains new strength through the letters she writes to Aleksandr, full of hope for a free Latvia and a better tomorrow.
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Wedding Association 2: Circumcision
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐น๐ท TurkeyIsmail and his old screwball crew land themselves in hot water when his grandson's circumcision evolves into a buzz-making citywide event.
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Agent Vinod
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฒ๐ฆ MoroccoIn Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhua, RAW Agent Vinod (Saif Ali Khan) is rescued by colleague Rajan (Ravi Kishan) from a rogue Pakistani army officer (Shahbaz Khan). In Russia/Uzbekistan, an ex-KGB Officer is tortured and murdered. In Cape Town, a group of international business tycoons discusses a rumor that the dead KGB officer possessed a nuclear suitcase bomb. In Moscow, Rajan is exposed and shot dead while trying to send a Code Red message to India. In India, the head of RAW sees the incomplete message containing just number 242. Agent Vinod undertakes a globe-trotting secret mission to discover the reason why his colleague, Rajan, was murdered. A series of twists and turns take Vinod across the globe to Morocco and Latvia, Karachi to Delhi and finally London where he discovers the actual conspiracy.
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The Priest
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940sFather Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII.
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Defenders of Riga
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia The 1910sThe film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.
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Double Trap
๐ฑ๐ป LatviaA police is trying to fight the criminal organization responsible for the illegal export of arts abroad. He pretends to be a criminal to enter and destroy their gang.
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Coup de Grรขce
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1910sA countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
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Billion Dollar Brain
Texas England ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland ๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐ท๐บ RussiaPow โฆ Power โฆ Brainpower โ A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
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Four White Shirts
๐ฑ๐ป LatviaCezars Kalnins, portrayed by "Latvian Harrison Fordโ Uldis Pucitis, installs telephones by day and composes pop songs by night. The puritan Soviet censorship deems Cezarsโs lyrics "unsuitable and frivolousโ and "unfit for the Soviet youthโ. In fact, it can be argued that this assessment matches the opinion of the Soviet cinema authorities in regard to this film as a whole, since "Four White Shirtsโ was immediately banned and released in cinemas only in 1986. The creative boldness and stubbornness, evident in both Cezarsโs bitingly ironic verses and the filmโs unconventional narrative structure and fresh, new-wave-inspired mode of expression, turned out to be equally problematic for the hero and for the film itself, as well as for its director whose representation of the actual mechanisms of Soviet censorship ended up too realistic for his own good.
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Akmens un ลกฤทembas
๐ฑ๐ป LatviaDuring World War II three best friends are mobilized into the Waffen-SS Latvian Legion. Years later their fates continue to intertwine, as memories of war loom in back of their minds.
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Menschen ohne Vaterland
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1910s
