Herz Frank Movies

A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his...

A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don't;...

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct...

An autobiographical work from Herz Frank. Images guide us through the countries in which he worked, interspersed with fragments from his earlier...

A little girl wanders all alone in the morning, through a bustling city, looking for the white bells she noticed in the window of a florist's shop. ...

One family, one band. They seemed to be happy. A movie that investigates why these seemingly optimistic musicians suddenly saw no hope to continue...

A portrait of the prominent Latvian painter Maija Tabaka, showcasing her work process and life of artists from that time.

The main characters of the film have made choices, which change their lives forever. A young man Yigal Amir assassinates the Prime Minister of Israel...

An ironic reportage about Shakespeare’s Juliet who has turned from a symbol of love into a victim of mass culture. The film was shot during a...

The painful exit of a child of man in the world of God. The highest sense of being and the earthly joy of man and woman.

A psychological portrait of kolkhos chairman Edgar Kaulin, who saved many Latvian farmers from deportations by the Soviets in the period 1945-53, and...

Reflections on human’s relationship with horses throughout the ages and their depiction in art are shown in parallel to the draft horse...

In 1991, the Moscow director Yevgeny Aryeh, with a handful of emigrants from the USSR, founded the Gesher Theater in Israel, which means...

Follows the life of a 16 yearo-old convict through the Soviet penal system.

Herz Frank short film.

In the 1966 the population of the Soviet Union was estimated at 235 million. A group of Latvian filmmakers traveled the length and breadth of the...

In 1968 Herz Frank made Without Legends (Bez leģendām) at the Kuibishev studios, together with Aloizs Brenčs and Aleksandr Sazhin.

Filmmakers of Riga poetic documentary school, Freimanis and Seleckis, were designated as the creative core for this documentary to be shot in honour...

On the islet of Procida near Naples, Italy, the Mystery Procession commencing at dawn on Good Friday of each year, has been traditionally conducted...