Browse 14 movies from Rīgas Dokumentālo filmu studija
Riga - from a subjective perspective, as seen and felt by the film's characters - artist Biruta Delle, the family of violinists Dagnija and Uldis Sprūdži, baker Dzintra Knaute, and the film's authors.
Jan 1990
A story about the Latgale Song Festival in Daugavpils, building a bridge between Latvia's fateful days in June 1940 and the 1990 festival, which is like a prelude to the upcoming 20th Latvian Song Festival in Riga. The director, who was born in Latgale, narrates the film himself, sometimes speaking in Latgalian, sprinkling in heartfelt jokes, drawing historical parallels, and radiating emotional excitement. The film features conductors Terēze Broka and Gunārs Ordelovskis, priest Aleksandrs Madelāns, composer Raimonds Pauls, and politician Anatolijs Gorbunovs, whom Streičs calls the president of Latvia because he was the first head of the restored state. The emotional climax of the film is composer Jānis Norvilis' song Daugav's abas malas (Both Banks of the Daugava) with Rainis' words "... Latgale is ours!"
Jul 1990
A film about conscription in the Soviet army. Mothers in Russia, Ukraine, and Latvia recount the tragic fate of their sons. The film has won awards at international film festivals in Lübeck (Germany), Yekaterinburg (Russia), and Kogoshima (Japan), and has been included in the official programs of film festivals in Cannes (France), Dortmund and Oberhausen (Germany), and elsewhere.
Sep 1990
The film captures those sacred moments when a person converses with God, feels their connection to the universe, and their soul is open to the good, the beautiful, the spiritual.
On the fate of the Livonian people in Latvia.
Zolitude is inhabited mainly by immigrants. An extremely denational environment, a disorderly everyday life, depressing standard type architecture - these are the problems faced by the film's characters.
The film depicts the republic's working life. Viewers are treated to a kaleidoscope of industrial enterprises, collective farms, cultural and educational institutions. The Kegums Power Plant, the VEF, the Bolshevichka Factory, the Riga Carriage Works and Ship Repair Plant, enterprises from other cities, and a harvest festival at the Selia collective farm. A panoramic view of the rural landscape and the beauty of Riga's architectural monuments are on display.
Nov 1950
Gravity is a movement in relation to Earth. It is also a system in which phenomena take place in society.
Jan 1993
A documentary about one of the most influential Latvian composers, Tālivaldis Ķeniņš, who lives in Canada.
Life and work of Latvian fishermen
Jan 1957
Film dedicated to Latvian refugees scattered around the world by World War II.
A fragment of the Berlin Wall in the centre of Riga.
Jan 1991
A portrait of Latvia just day before the Declaration of Independence.
May 1990