Vita, a beautiful teenage girl, is asked by a controversial artist to pose as the Virgin Mary for a painting. She visits his studio and finds herself swept up into the bizarre world of the artist and his bohemian friends. She seems to see his paintings come to life and is pursued by strange shadowy figures. Later she has nightmarish visions of the artist visiting her at night in the form of a huge spider. The next morning she finds marks on her body that look like the bites of a large insect. Vita’s mother becomes worried about her and sends the girl off to stay with relatives in the countryside, believing that the change of environment will help her to recover. However, it seems the dark forces that threatened Vita in the city have followed her and an ancient evil is being awakened that feeds off Vita’s burgeoning sexuality.
Mirta, an old woman from the countryside, wins a car in a lottery and suddenly has to play host to a houseful of scarcely-seen relatives. Her nephew Ēriks, his wife Dagnija and son Uģis, and her former daughter-in-law Olita, husband Viktors and daughter Lāsma would all like to get the car, and each tries to influence Mirta. But before dying, she remembers her old admirer Pigalu Prīdis.
In 1995, during the festivities marking 100 years of cinema, Limousine the Colour of St. John's Night was recognized as the best Latvian film of all time.
Cast: Lilita Bērziņa, Uldis Dumpis, Olga Dreģe, Gundars Āboliņš, Baiba Indriksone, Boļeslavs Ružs, Diāna Zande, Līga Liepiņa, Romualds Ancāns, Ēvalds Valters
Directed by Jānis Streičs
Scriptwriter: Māra Svīre
One of the most impressive films in the history of Latvian documentary cinema – a monumental film, shot by four different crews in the whole Soviet Union under the supervision of director Uldis Brauns. Referencing the number of inhabitants of the massive country in its title, the film contrastingly captures the most important moments in the life of an individual as well as the society, seeking the personal and the intimate as well as scope and the sensational in the scenes of the mass events.
Directed by: Uldis Brauns
A collective portrait of the Latvian Red Riflemen is made up of memories told by the old men themselves. Unique and harsh are their destinies during the World War I and the revolution, at the opposite fronts of civil war, in 1930s. The victories of the Riflemen, their courage, confidence, pain and tragedy. The authors of the film have been able to save these tales from the relentless flow of time and make everyone realise the role of the Latvian Riflemen in history and nation.
During the summer holidays, the children's company gathers around the Rhine, but the curious boy Kārlis stays alone. The girl Herta comes from Riga to visit her relatives. She spends time with interest and listens to Karl's stories. The offended Reinis and his friends play an evil joke with Kārlis, wanting to laugh at the different boy.
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 his life anew. The attention is concentrated on the inner world of Markalns, his feelings in this so important period of his life, when to endure and to proceed means to regain the lost sense of life and himself. His character and emotional world opens in a wide scale: in collisions with colleagues, patients, friends, himself. He is contradictory, but even in moments of low spirits, virile. A real warmth and balance of mind is brought in the life of the outwardly robust and clumsy surgeon by a shy small-town girl Irita, called Doggie.
An accidental meeting helps to learn a lot of new in surrounding world and his soul, to realize that youth is one of the most important stages of human life.