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On Saturday night Mother Rabbit takes her children to the bathhouse in the forest, but their happy bathtime ritual is disturbed when a dog dashing through the mist accidentally runs into the bathhouse. The little rabbits scatter in different directions, but in the end everyone falls asleep in their own cradles.
Jan 1979
A legendary animation film by Roze Stiebra.
Jan 1985
An animation film for kids teaching them to love and protect nature. Based on the story "Čigānmeitēns Ringla".
Jan 1973
A chemistry student causes an explosion during an exam. After that, she finds herself as a barmaid and spends the following evening in a cheerful company of musicians and cafe-goers, treating those present with drinks.
Apr 1968
Three animated songs for the youngest viewers, based on the classics of Latvian children's literature. Poems The Golden Sieve, The Cloud Boy and the Cloud Girl, and The Sun and the Moon by Rainis tell children in poetic images "how things happen in the sky", where the goddess of fate Laima scatters stars like diamond seeds, Cloud Children annoy Father Thunder by swinging and overturn the big rain bowl, but the beautiful Daughter of the Sun falls in love with the stately Moon Boy.
Jan 1975
A meditation on Henrik Ibsen's plays "Brand" and "Peer Gynt".
Sep 1984
An animation film based on a Latvian folk tale.
Jan 1971
Dilli Dalli is an adventurous boy who can bring his toys to life. Now, however, he needs to meet his opponent - the evil Perpendicular, who makes everything that's living to disappear. Dilli Dalli goes to the kingdom of the evil Perpendicular to save his toys he brought to life.
Jan 1974
A story about the adventures of a helicopter girl named Hela.
Jan 1970
Roze Stiebra's animation film based on Latvian folktales.
Jan 1976
The 20th Latvian Song and Dance Festival was the first in which compatriots from all corners of the world gathered in a free Latvia, including those who had gone into exile in the West and those who had been forcibly deported to Siberia. Director Dzintra Geka also brings together those who were unable to return to their homeland – footage for the film was shot in Sweden, at the 6th European Latvian Song Festival in Norrköping, where Latvian Minister of Justice Laila Freivalde, who is of Latvian descent, marches alongside her compatriots, and in Siberia, in the village of Lejas Bulāna, where Latvian women sing "...because this is Latvia, this is Bulāna...". The older generation of Canadian Latvians also dance at the festival with the Dardedze dance group from Toronto, while Mārtiņš Brauns prepares his song Saule, Pērkons, Daugava (Sun, Thunder, Daugava) for the choir.
Sep 1991
A variety of animals go on a musical adventure though the countryside.
Jan 1983
An animation film based on Latvian folk songs, significant due to its artistic style which was far removed from the social realism which was the only accepted form of artistic expression in the Soviet Union at the time, and also due to its undertones related to national identity.
Jan 1984
The animated film is based on Vika's fairy tale "The Complicated Sparrow."
An animation film based on a story by Imants Ziedonis about the relationship between a human and nature.
Jan 1977
A story about the Piglet who taught a lesson to the evil Wolf.
Jan 1972
A little boy sees a thirsty camel in his picture book and imagines bringing him a rain cloud.
Jan 1969
The protagonist's adventures tell a story about the water supply system.
Jan 1978