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Varis Vetra

Varis Vetra

Acting
1955-01-01

Known For & Full Filmography12 Titles

#1Soloist Needed

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
MusicComedy

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

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#2The Photo of a Woman with a Boar

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.0 / 10
MysteryThrillerCrime

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.

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#3It's Easy to Fall Into an Overgrown Ditch

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

1.0 / 10
Drama

Latvia, 1980s. While striving for achievements in the Soviet kolhoz competition, people have forgotten to take care of their surroundings and their loved ones. The Latvian countryside is overwhelmed by alcoholism, and the chairman of the kolhoz is keeping the newly built culture hub locked up so that public would not "spoil it". Vitolds, the new secretary of the Young Communist League is ready to combat all the negative issues. However, it's important to do everything with moderation, as otherwise one may fall from one side of a ditch to another.

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#4Dangerous Summer

Movie - 2000, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
DramaHistory

A historical drama about an attempt to steal the entire Latvian national wealth deposited abroad by Wilhelms Munters, the Latvian Foreign Minister in the forties.

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#5Don't Ask Me About the Thing

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Drama

The heroine informs both lovers about her pregnancy in order to determine by their reaction how serious the feelings of each of them are.

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#6Wait for the «John Grafton»

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
HistoryTV Movie

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.

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#7This Dangerous Balcony Door

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Rolands

8.0 / 10
DramaCrime

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.

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#8Roses of Autumn

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.0 / 10
ComedyTV Movie

The film is about a middle-aged couple experiencing a midlife crisis. The husband and wife are tired of life together and start to forget the love they once shared in their youth.

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#9Nazis and Blondes

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m as Self

6.0 / 10
DocumentaryHistory

Veteran actors from the 3 Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - gather at a castle in Latvia to receive awards for their roles as Nazi villains in propagandist Soviet war films. They reminisce about the films that made them famous throughout the USSR, but also stigmatized the Baltic countries as Nazi sympathizers in the eyes of many Russians - a misconception that is nowadays exploited by the Russian media, desperate to label the Baltic countries as a fascist haven.

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#10The Grand New Year's Night

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Romance

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#11Wait for the «John Grafton»

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes as Sailor

8.0 / 10
War & 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.

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#12Dear Life

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10

A homage to Krišjānis Barons and his life's work – to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas,thus creating the encyclopaedia of Latvian life, a poetic reflection of the knowledge of life accumulated over the centuries. The film is based on Krišjānis Barons' life during late 1800s and early 1900s – his childhood and youth in Latvia, studies and work in St. Petersburg and other places in Russia, his relationship with his faithful wife Dārta, and the awakening of the Latvian self-awareness.

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