Jānis Putniņš

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Studied at the German Language Department of the University of Latvia, Faculty of Foreign Languages. Holds a Bachelor's degree in Film Directing from the Massachusetts College of Art, a Master's degree in Media Studies / English from the State University of New York. He has been director of several Latvian film studios and Latvian National Opera. He was the creative director of ADELL Saatchi & Saatchi.

Most Popular Jānis Putniņš Trailers

Total trailers found: 16

Investigation of Related Events Trailer (1993)

24 October 1993

The movie shows a young man's life dramatically changed after his friend is murdered. It is ironic - if to look with today's eyes - and nostalgia evoking portrait of marginal society and environment in the early 1990s with allusions to the western cinema - film noir related themes, surrealistic features, avantgard cinema stylization and formal aesthetics.

I Shall Return as a Flaming Rose Trailer (2014)

10 November 2014

Lonely, 45 year-old worker Kasandra has just received a lethal diagnosis from her doctor. She goes to her high school reunion, confused, and is faced with phantasmagorical events that completely shatter her daily routine.

He Was Called Chaos Berzins Trailer (2018)

14 June 2018

Harry Berzins is abducted by aliens. Traumatic experience gained is on a foreign planet, where the gray race rules and makes Berzins feel excluded.

The Year Before the War Trailer (2021)

17 November 2021

Stylized as silent cinema, the film connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of a new world.

Vogelfrei Trailer (2007)

07 June 2007

Four directors capture simple, yet quintessential experiences of a single individual in different periods of his life - childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.

Adoptee '88 Trailer (2019)

20 November 2019

Born in 1988, Kristaps finally wants to find out who is his real father. Family women do not tell if it is Guntis or Gvido.

Eliyahu Rips: The Burning Trailer (2016)

04 May 2016

In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a public square in Riga, Latvia protesting against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Hide-and-seek Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

A young woman, Regina, has been killed in her apartment. Investigator Anderson holds Regina’s husband as a suspect for a murder because he is unable to remember his location at the time of the fateful event.

Lotus Trailer (2025)

11 April 2025

Alice von Trota returns to her father’s manor in Latvia in 1919 to sell it and start a new life. She meets the hostile resistance of the local workers and discovers she has been lured into a carefully tailored trap set by a demonic lawyer, a decadent underground organisation and its necrophile leader.

Touch of Dzenis Trailer (2017)

23 November 2017

A female ninja tries to break ties with her spiritual teacher. The seemingly unexpected and humiliating death of her teacher is only the beginning of this process; it is a decisive step in her life.

Pacelšanās Trailer (2016)

30 March 2016

A brutal force interrupts the cowboy's journey to the city. In a state of unconsciousness, his consciousness is confronted with his subconscious, and the cowboy undergoes a painful ritual of self-purification.

Tempest Trailer (2021)

16 June 2021

In spite of bad omen about the upcoming storm, the fisherman sets out to the sea and doesn’t return.

Zeno's Paradox Trailer (2022)

02 October 2022

Alex is a perfectly ordinary young man whose life changes radically after receiving a strange message and meeting several strange characters who seem to have stepped out of the world of cinema.

Will-o'-the-wisp Trailer (1980)

01 January 1980

The film, based on Regina Ezera's story "It Dos All", has won recognition at the 23rd Latvian SSR Amateur Film Festival, receiving a bronze medal and an award for best cinematography.

Fatālists un viņa saimnieks Trailer (2021)

07 October 2021

How did they meet? ... By chance, like all of us. What are their names? ... I would ask - what's your part? Where are they going? .

Only Trains Remember That Trailer (2016)

29 November 2016

Trains and railroad tracks are the unifying elements in this found footage film made out of fragments from feature films produced in Latvia from 1958 to 1989.