There Were Seven Simeons
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.
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.
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.
Herz Frank short film.
Also Directed by Vladimir Eisner
A vast, sun-scorched steppe on the border with Kazakhstan. Here, in the small village of Bursol near the lake of the same name, live people who risk their lives every day, and perform the hardest work, for the sake of one thing-the extraction of salt.
The story of a dedicated Red Army commander who was killed in Stalin's "purges."
A film about young hockey players who, under the guidance of coach Alexander Savchenko, won gold medals at the World Bandy Championship among youth under 18 in Sweden.
“The film is about one of the most terrible and difficult periods in the history of Russia of the 20th century, about the 90s of the last century. For many people it was a shock. The Empire collapsed, human relations and moral values collapsed. Crime and bandits were everywhere. And ordinary people were concerned about how to survive. This period was called perestroika. The people call this time a troubled time. The film reviews social processes from within, not from the outside propaganda side. Much for the modern spectator seems strange, it seems phantasmagoric, but it was so.” -V. Eisner
A film about soldiers who have been to war. About military friendship and the Afghan syndrome.
