Maija Doveika

The Dark Deer (2007)

17-year-old Ria is a sensitive and mysterious young woman. Ria's mother has suffered in a car accident and has stopped speaking since her daughter's birth. The family grows deer for sale, yet, the business is not successful. To earn some money, her father decides ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Viesturs Kairišs
CAST:  Maija Doveika  •  Kristīne Krūze  •  Kaspars Dimiters  •  Elita Kļaviņa

17-year-old Ria is a sensitive and mysterious young woman. Ria's mother has suffered in a car accident and has stopped speaking since her daughter's birth. The family grows deer for sale, yet, the business is not successful. To earn some money, her father decides ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Viesturs Kairišs
CAST:  Maija Doveika  •  Kristīne Krūze  •  Kaspars Dimiters  •  Elita Kļaviņa

Roses of Autumn (2004)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jānis Streičs
CAST:  Romualds Ancāns  •  Maija Doveika  •  Lauris Dzelzītis  •  Baiba Kranāte

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jānis Streičs
CAST:  Romualds Ancāns  •  Maija Doveika  •  Lauris Dzelzītis  •  Baiba Kranāte

Night-watchman and Laundress (2002)

A modern story of love and how dangerous it is to play with the feelings of another.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jānis Streičs
CAST:  Aija Dzērve  •  Artis Robežnieks  •  Sarmīte Rubule  •  Maija Doveika

A modern story of love and how dangerous it is to play with the feelings of another.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jānis Streičs
CAST:  Aija Dzērve  •  Artis Robežnieks  •  Sarmīte Rubule  •  Maija Doveika

The Chronicles of Melanie (2016)

The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get deported to Siberia ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Viesturs Kairišs
CAST:  Sabine Timoteo  •  Guna Zariņa  •  Baiba Broka  •  Astrīda Kairiša

The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get deported to Siberia ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Viesturs Kairišs
CAST:  Sabine Timoteo  •  Guna Zariņa  •  Baiba Broka  •  Astrīda Kairiša

Firstborn (2017)

A psychological thriller about a middle-aged intellectual who, in an attempt to restore his reputation in his wife’s eyes, accidentally commits a murder. As time passes, he begins to see a link between the deceased, his wife’s pregnancy and the mysterious ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Maija Doveika  •  Kaspars Zāle  •  Kaspars Znotiņš  •  Mārtiņš Liepa

A psychological thriller about a middle-aged intellectual who, in an attempt to restore his reputation in his wife’s eyes, accidentally commits a murder. As time passes, he begins to see a link between the deceased, his wife’s pregnancy and the mysterious ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Maija Doveika  •  Kaspars Zāle  •  Kaspars Znotiņš  •  Mārtiņš Liepa

Bille (2018)

A family film based on the book Bille by Vizma Belševica. An extraordinary, lonely yet spiritually strong little girl attempts to comprehend the adult world, which in her eyes is very contradictory, and to prove her own value despite the ignorance and lack of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ināra Kolmane
CAST:  Rūta Kronberga  •  Elīna Vāne  •  Artūrs Skrastiņš  •  Lolita Cauka

A family film based on the book Bille by Vizma Belševica. An extraordinary, lonely yet spiritually strong little girl attempts to comprehend the adult world, which in her eyes is very contradictory, and to prove her own value despite the ignorance and lack of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ināra Kolmane
CAST:  Rūta Kronberga  •  Elīna Vāne  •  Artūrs Skrastiņš  •  Lolita Cauka

Pinocchio (2017)

An actress faces a difficult choice when her teenage daughter gets unwell right before the opening night of a show.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Elita Kļaviņa
CAST:  Maija Doveika  •  Laura Žaklīna Bukša

An actress faces a difficult choice when her teenage daughter gets unwell right before the opening night of a show.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Elita Kļaviņa
CAST:  Maija Doveika  •  Laura Žaklīna Bukša

Mia (2022)

Mia, an obedient daughter of a piano teacher, challenges her mother’s patience as she grows up and learns more about the life outside her room together with a boy next door. This coming-of-age story, entirely shot from a fixed top-down perspective of Mia’s room, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Emīls Alps
CAST:  Maija Doveika  •  Rēzija Vekša  •  Paula Šmite  •  Mia Manceviča

Mia, an obedient daughter of a piano teacher, challenges her mother’s patience as she grows up and learns more about the life outside her room together with a boy next door. This coming-of-age story, entirely shot from a fixed top-down perspective of Mia’s room, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Emīls Alps
CAST:  Maija Doveika  •  Rēzija Vekša  •  Paula Šmite  •  Mia Manceviča

Soviet Milk (2023)

Young and promising doctor loses everything due to her conflict with the totalitarian Soviet regime – career, love for life and even mother’s instinct denying breast milk to her baby. However, the grown-up daughter becomes her only supporter who tries to help ease ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ināra Kolmane
CAST:  Maija Doveika  •  Elīna Vaska  •  Rūta Kronberga  •  Indra Briķe

Young and promising doctor loses everything due to her conflict with the totalitarian Soviet regime – career, love for life and even mother’s instinct denying breast milk to her baby. However, the grown-up daughter becomes her only supporter who tries to help ease ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ināra Kolmane
CAST:  Maija Doveika  •  Elīna Vaska  •  Rūta Kronberga  •  Indra Briķe