Movies: Juris Gornavs

  • 1993
    Christmas Huddle

    Christmas Huddle (1993)

    Christmas Huddle

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    Ziemmassvetku Jampadracis tells the story of the Cirulisi, a tight-knit family down on their luck, and their trials and tribulations during the Christmas season....

    Christmas Huddle
  • 1993
    Investigation of Related Events

    Investigation of Related Events (1993)

    Investigation of Related Events

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    The movie shows a young man's life dramatically changed after his friend is murdered. It is ironic - if to look with today's eyes - and nostalgia evoking portrait of marginal society and environment in the early 1990s with allusions to the western ci...

    Investigation of Related Events
  • 1997
    Latavio, or Life Nr. 2

    Latavio, or Life Nr. 2 (1997)

    Latavio, or Life Nr. 2

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    An omnibus film consisting of ten parts, each directed by a different young director from the Latvian Academy of Culture. The unifying element of the ten shorts is the place where they take place - the airport. A lot can happen there - including a st...

    Latavio, or Life Nr. 2
  • 2013
    Capitalism at Crossroad Street

    Capitalism at Crossroad Street (2013)

    Capitalism at Crossroad Street

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    This is the 3rd film in almost 30 years about the daily lives of the people living in this small street of Pārdaugava. We first met them in the late 1980s when the Soviet Union was on the brink of collapse. We visited them again in the wild 1990s. An...

    Capitalism at Crossroad Street
  • 1996
    Dragon's Egg

    Dragon's Egg (1996)

    Dragon's Egg

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    The film’s protagonists Ieva and Apollon are former workers of a collective farm. Once they loved each other passionately. Yet it was in "another" life, the time of kolkholzs. The attempt to revive that love ends up in a tragedy. However the story go...

    Dragon's Egg
  • 1990
    Maestro

    Maestro (1990)

    Maestro

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    An ecranisation of an Anšlavs Eglītis's novel of the same title is an ironic story about the Latvian art scene during the 30ies....

    Maestro
  • 1999
    New Times at Crossroad Street

    New Times at Crossroad Street (1999)

    New Times at Crossroad Street

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    Ten years have passed since we made the film “Crossroad Street”, about a small street in the suburbs of the city of Riga. Now we’ve come back. Perhaps it was a sense of duty, perhaps nostalgia that brought us back – who knows? Perhaps it was both. Da...

    New Times at Crossroad Street
  • 2001
    Leaving by the way

    Leaving by the way (2001)

    Leaving by the way

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    A tale about a nine-year old boy's relationship with the world around him, shot in one of Latvia's poorest and most beautiful regions - Latgale...

    Leaving by the way