Also Directed by Herz Frank
"The Jewish Street" is a controversial documentary produced by Augusts Sukuts and directed by his close colleague, Latvian-born director Hertz Frank, one of the founders of the Baltic poetic documentary genre. "The Jewish Street" is dedicated to the painful issues of the Holocaust and the Riga Ghetto.
One family, one band. They seemed to be happy. A movie that investigates why these seemingly optimistic musicians suddenly saw no hope to continue living in USSR and tried to escape it by hijacking a plane.
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.
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 day in the backyard of the Cappelletti house in Verona.
In 1968 Herz Frank made Without Legends (Bez leģendām) at the Kuibishev studios, together with Aloizs Brenčs and Aleksandr Sazhin.
Soviet Union's routine explained through the life of common people.
Also Directed by Ansis Epners
About Māris Grīva, the coach of Dainis Kūla, the Olympic champion in javelin throwing, who trains young javelin throwers in Ventspils.
A meditation on Henrik Ibsen's plays "Brand" and "Peer Gynt".
Four young men after university are sent to work as managers in a collective (kolkhoz). The film is about how these people try to achieve something better in the Soviet system.
Arnolds Cīrulis, a history teacher from Džūkste, remembers the events of the Second World War.
The second part of a duology about Sergei Eisenstein's life, creative work and his epoch.
A dynamic, emotional film about sports and the fellowship of athletes from different countries, joining their forces in the fight for peace. The film was shot during the Goodwill Games in 1986 in Moscow.
