Acting

Mirdza Martinsone

Born August 16, 1951 · Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia] (age 75)

No biography available.

Known For

Spider

MovieDramaHorror

A young woman agrees to model for an artist as the Virgin Mary. His strange influence triggers her repressed sexual urges, causing her to have delusions and nightmares about spiders and other grotesque imagery.

In A Loop

In A Loop · 1990

MovieMysteryDrama

Taboo

A comedy about sex, love, relationships, and taboo. In a multi-story narrative, we peer behind the closed doors of a seemingly normal city.

Little Tom Thumb

Little Tom Thumb · 1987

Little Tom Thumb

MovieFamilyFantasy

Tom Thumb's evil stepmother exploits him amd makes his life very hard, so the little shepherd boy decides to leave home and seek happiness in the world outside. There Tom Thumb meets the Wind Mother, Forest Mother and a little old man on his way. Each of them gives him a chore to do that earns him a gift with magical power, which comes in handy when he has to defeat Scrooges, Lop-Eared Man and the Devil himself. While traveling in the world and looking for happiness, he realises he misses his grandmother and little sister...

The Photo of a Woman with a Boar

The Photo of a Woman with a Boar · 1987

The Photo of a Woman with a Boar

MovieMysteryThriller

The 1980s. Kārlis did his military service in Afghanistan and is now confined to a wheelchair. Before he left, he had fallen in love with the teacher Judīte, but she has now married a rich man...and poses nude for Kārlis' neighbour, the cynical photographer Rūdofs. Soon Rūdolfs is found dead, and Kārlis admits to having murdered him. But investigator Konrāds suspects that Kārlis is incriminating himself.

The Zitar Family

The Zitar Family · 1990

The Zitar Family

MovieDramaTV Movie

The epic film is based on the motifs of Vilis Lācis' novel "The Zītari Family". The tragedy of the Zītari family is a model of Latvian national history. With the beginning of World War I, the patriarchal way of life of Captain Andrejs and his wife Alvīne, their children Kārlis, Ings, Ernests, Elza and Janka changes, with years spent at work and in rare, modest celebrations. Kārlis voluntarily goes to the front, Ingus disappears without a trace on long sea voyages. Not wanting to live in the territory occupied by the German army, the Zītari evacuate to the distant Altai region. The unusually difficult living conditions and the drastically changing political situation of the post-revolutionary period also affect each member of the Zītari family. When the opportunity arises to return to Latvia, Andrejs and Alvīne are no longer among the living. The old sailor's nest has collapsed and the young Zītari are no longer able to preserve their father's house - all the property is stolen.

This Dangerous Balcony Door

This Dangerous Balcony Door · 1976

This Dangerous Balcony Door

MovieDramaCrime

When Rolands and his friends' amateur movie seen at his 18th birthday party unfolds as a crime testimony, fragile bond between people threatens to break completely.

Be My Mother-in-Law!

Be My Mother-in-Law! · 1977

Be My Mother-in-Law!

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

Filmography

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Spider

MovieDramaHorror

A young woman agrees to model for an artist as the Virgin Mary. His strange influence triggers her repressed sexual urges, causing her to have delusions and nightmares about spiders and other grotesque imagery.

Mother

In A Loop

In A Loop · 1990

MovieMysteryDrama

Taboo

A comedy about sex, love, relationships, and taboo. In a multi-story narrative, we peer behind the closed doors of a seemingly normal city.

Little Tom Thumb

Little Tom Thumb · 1987

Little Tom Thumb

MovieFamilyFantasy

Tom Thumb's evil stepmother exploits him amd makes his life very hard, so the little shepherd boy decides to leave home and seek happiness in the world outside. There Tom Thumb meets the Wind Mother, Forest Mother and a little old man on his way. Each of them gives him a chore to do that earns him a gift with magical power, which comes in handy when he has to defeat Scrooges, Lop-Eared Man and the Devil himself. While traveling in the world and looking for happiness, he realises he misses his grandmother and little sister...

Forest mother

The Photo of a Woman with a Boar

The Photo of a Woman with a Boar · 1987

The Photo of a Woman with a Boar

MovieMysteryThriller

The 1980s. Kārlis did his military service in Afghanistan and is now confined to a wheelchair. Before he left, he had fallen in love with the teacher Judīte, but she has now married a rich man...and poses nude for Kārlis' neighbour, the cynical photographer Rūdofs. Soon Rūdolfs is found dead, and Kārlis admits to having murdered him. But investigator Konrāds suspects that Kārlis is incriminating himself.

Judīte Žīraka

The Zitar Family

The Zitar Family · 1990

The Zitar Family

MovieDramaTV Movie

The epic film is based on the motifs of Vilis Lācis' novel "The Zītari Family". The tragedy of the Zītari family is a model of Latvian national history. With the beginning of World War I, the patriarchal way of life of Captain Andrejs and his wife Alvīne, their children Kārlis, Ings, Ernests, Elza and Janka changes, with years spent at work and in rare, modest celebrations. Kārlis voluntarily goes to the front, Ingus disappears without a trace on long sea voyages. Not wanting to live in the territory occupied by the German army, the Zītari evacuate to the distant Altai region. The unusually difficult living conditions and the drastically changing political situation of the post-revolutionary period also affect each member of the Zītari family. When the opportunity arises to return to Latvia, Andrejs and Alvīne are no longer among the living. The old sailor's nest has collapsed and the young Zītari are no longer able to preserve their father's house - all the property is stolen.

Anna

This Dangerous Balcony Door

This Dangerous Balcony Door · 1976

This Dangerous Balcony Door

MovieDramaCrime

When Rolands and his friends' amateur movie seen at his 18th birthday party unfolds as a crime testimony, fragile bond between people threatens to break completely.

Edīte

Be My Mother-in-Law!

Be My Mother-in-Law! · 1977

Be My Mother-in-Law!

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

Inga

The Mills of Fate

The Mills of Fate · 1997

The Mills of Fate

MovieDramaRomance

A love triangle - a terminally ill university teacher, a blind girl and a young bard. In the background of it all - the wild arrival of the capitalism, political conflicts, city life and the beautiful nature of Latvia. In the end love will conquer everything, though not everybody will live to witness that.

Nameda

Rich Man, Poor Man...

Rich Man, Poor Man... · 1982

Rich Man, Poor Man...

An examination of the trials and tribulations of the Jordache family, from the period following World War II to the late 1960s.

Kate

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World · 1982

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

MovieDramaHistory

The second part of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk's epic biography of John Reed. It is October 1917 and the American journalist has found himself and his wife, Louise Bryant, in Petrograd on the eve of the Bolshevik revolution.

Bessie Beatty

Soloist Needed

Soloist Needed · 1984

MovieMusicComedy

Latvian friends are helping to Estonian rock group to participate in the music competition.

When The Brakes Won't Hold

When The Brakes Won't Hold · 1984

When The Brakes Won't Hold

The police leadership is concerned about the increase in car thefts. The investigation of the thefts is entrusted to police captain Siliņš. Once, his fiancée and colleague Aija Kalniņa almost catches up with the criminals in her service car after a chase, but at the last moment they manage to escape. However, Aija manages to spot her eighteen-year-old brother Juris among the thieves. Hiding in the forest, the car thieves accidentally witness another crime—an attack on a woman. To justify himself in his sister's eyes, Juris sets out to find the criminal and is killed.

On the White Van's Trail

On the White Van's Trail · 1992

On the White Van's Trail

MovieFamilyMystery

Three friends dream of purchasing St. Bernard puppies. But obstacles arise along their path, which require resourcefulness and ingenuity to overcome...

Spanish Version

Spanish Version · 1980

Spanish Version

A story of a Latvian journalist spying for USSR in Spain during the civil war.

Mērija

The Weather in August

The Weather in August · 1983

The Weather in August

A coming-of-age drama about a thirteen-year old boy Ilmārs, who suddenly gets entangled in his parents' relationship crisis as well as experiences his own first romantic feelings, too.

Mommies 3

Mommies 3 · 2014

MovieDramaComedy

This time, in keeping with the best traditions of the first two parts, Mothers tells a beautiful, fascinating, lyrical and funny story of the three mothers that takes place in a small European town on New Year’s Eve. The three mothers are flying to Prague on New Year’s Eve.

Death Under Sail

Death Under Sail · 1976

Death Under Sail

MovieCrimeMystery

Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his heart, all six fall under suspicion.

Flight Over the Atlantic

Flight Over the Atlantic · 1984

Flight Over the Atlantic

MovieDramaHistory

Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.

The Private Life of Santa Claus

The Private Life of Santa Claus · 1982

The Private Life of Santa Claus

It's a story about actor who, in in addition to his day job at the theater, is earning an extra money playing Sant Claus in kindergartens during the Xmas period.

Vīrietis labākajos gados

Vīrietis labākajos gados · 1978

Vīrietis labākajos gados

Alfrēds Turlavs is a successful engineer at a communications technology factory in Riga, but his comfortable life has grown emotionally distant. His marriage to Līvija has lost its warmth, while their daughter Vita has grown up and started a family of her own. Just when Turlavs seems settled into a predictable routine, a new love enters his life: his colleague Maija.

All Against One

All Against One · 1987

All Against One

MovieMysteryDrama

A wealthy businessman, Meredith Borden, is murdered. Two innocent people fall under suspicion – Borden’s secretary’s wife and a building contractor. Lawyer Jerry Jackson is convinced of their innocence and takes on their defense, fully aware that by doing so he will incur the wrath of the highest circles connected to the crime.

Loretta Harter

Special Forces Squad

Special Forces Squad · 1987

Special Forces Squad

MovieAdventureWar

Лидия Лисовская

The Aunties

The Aunties · 2014

MovieComedyRomance

The action of the story takes place around the Christmas time, when, as usually, the most unbelievable miracles come to life. The story starts with Masha - future doctor and meanwhile an eager student of medical university, her best friend Lilka - a colorful and charismatic young lady who is always in search of man of her life, and Masha's grandfather, Andrei Ivanovich, who is her only relative - a kind but deeply sad amateur painter. The heroes live their ordinary lifes with their worries and laughs until at Christmas Eve they receive a phone call... Three Aunties, who named them self as distant relatives, announce their arrival within an hour. With their arrival the story becomes dashing and somehow magical.

Klavdiya Petrovna

Sweetheart Monika

Sweetheart Monika · 1999

Sweetheart Monika

Events and misunderstandings in the daily tricks of a real Latvian dangerous housewife in the comedy series "Sweetheart Monika". A bit of an unpredictable hothead and a cheater and always very feminine! Most often she acted and only then thought. Housewife who wanted to be something more - Monika! "Sweetheart Monika"!

Monika Rambāne

Mirage

SeriesMysteryCrime

Tragic events in the lives of five people after they have stolen a car with one million dollars in the safe. This is the job they have all been waiting for. The job that will set them up for life. A million dollars split five ways, who wouldn't be interested? The only catch is that it's the very definition of impossible...or is it? Armed with a brilliant plan, the four men and one woman think they can crack it. But as tensions in the group begin to mount and things start to go wrong, the million dollars feels more out of reach than ever. Even though it is right with them...

Jeannie Gordon

Death Under Sail

Death Under Sail · 1977

Death Under Sail

SeriesMysteryCrime

Successful oncologist Dr. Roger Mills invites a group of friends aboard his yacht for a relaxing getaway. Days later, on a bright sunny morning, he is found dead, shot through the heart. As suspicion falls on those closest to him, local police sergeant Beryl and Mr. Finbow begin a murder investigation that will expose the secrets hidden beneath the carefree voyage.

Tony Gilmor

Zītaru dzimta

Zītaru dzimta · 1990

Tragedy of the Zitars family based on the novel by Vilis Lacis.

Anna

Tapers

The path of the main character to the tops of creative work is a chain of victories and losses, in which gains and irretrievable losses alternate.

Unfinished Dinner

Unfinished Dinner · 1979

Unfinished Dinner

SeriesCrimeComedy

In one of the prestigious restaurants during banquet speech a large company's director Palmgren is killed in front of dozen guests . Case is lead by Criminal Investigation Officer Pierre Monson with his assistants. Suspect can be easily intercepted if only miserably lazy police officers Kvant and Kristiansson instead of catching criminal would not argue with father of little 3 years old boy who yelled: "Police, police, mashed potatoes" when they ate hot dogs. Help comes from capital in form of the famous Commissioner Martin Beck, who discovers that murdered industrialist was involved in illegal activities and had many enemies. The case is linked as well with government's "higher ends".

Sara, Bruberg's secretary

Wait for the «John Grafton»

Wait for the «John Grafton» · 1981

Wait for the «John Grafton»

SeriesWar & Politics

At the beginning of the summer of 1905, representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Krasilnikov and Elkonen turned to Captain Zhanis Trautman, a Latvian political emigrant living on the outskirts of London, with a proposal to lead a steamer with a cargo of weapons to the shores of Russia. Having recruited a team of old and tried comrades, Trautman changes the crew of an English cargo ship bought by the front men. In the course of the squabble that arose on this occasion, a sailor of the old crew, David Blake, was stabbed. The wounded Blake and the veterinarian Gruber, who accompanied the cargo of anthrax drugs, are forced to leave on board. On the high seas, weapons and explosives were loaded on board. The steamer headed for the Oresund Strait, where a messenger was to meet him.

Elena Pavlovna