Herz Frank
Kristīne Briede and Audrius Stonys’s meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.
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 and becomes the most hated prisoner in the country. Larissa, who emigrated from Russia, mother of four divorces her first husband, marries the assassin and gives birth to his son. For many years the film authors have been trying to solve and perceive this complicated story. One of them, Hertz Frank, passes away during the shootings remaining on the threshold of the eternal mystery - life, death and love...
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.
"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.
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 emotional journey through the trial, imprisonment and beyond.
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; we can only guess from their faces.
Follows the life of a 16 yearo-old convict through the Soviet penal system.
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 country to create a portrait of the diverse population.
In 1968 Herz Frank made Without Legends (Bez leģendām) at the Kuibishev studios, together with Aloizs Brenčs and Aleksandr Sazhin.
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.
