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Agnese Budovska

Agnese Budovska

Acting

Biography

Agnese Budovska (previously known as Agnese Cīrule) is a Latvian theatre and film actress. In film, she's best known for her roles in The Sign Painter (Pilsēta pie upes) and Wild East, as well as mini-series Red Forest (Sarkanais mežs).

Known For

The Good Neighbor
6.6

A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.

The Good Neighbor

2022
Escape Net
9.4

A young woman in Stalin-era Riga joins a basketball team, hoping that she will be allowed to travel abroad and see her brother who's living in exile.

Escape Net

2025
The Sign Painter
6.2

A Latvian tragicomedy about a young artist who bears witness to the dramatic political upheavals of the WWII era. As brutal regimes come and go, his country, his village, his people, and even his heart are swept up in the inexorable currents of history.

The Sign Painter

2020
Mutiny
8.0

Based on true events, a historical drama about one man's struggle against the authorities that leads to a mutiny on a Soviet warship.

Mutiny

2024
Red Forest
N/A

A drama about the national resistance movement in Latvia after the Soviet occupation. Events take place in 1949 when the British intelligence service MI6 tries to find out about the situation in the Baltic States occupied by the Soviet Union. Wittold (Jekabs Reinis), together with other Latvians, works hard in his daily work, and Velta (Agnese Cirule) is a nurse. They dream of going to the United States, saving money, planning a wedding and arranging the necessary documents because the US carefully selects emigrants. But Wittold decides to take part in the Mission, and the hope of changing history changes his life.

Red Forest

2019
Dawn of War
6.1

A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.

Dawn of War

2020
Markuss
N/A

Five years ago, Polina's son Mark mysteriously disappears from a kindergarten in Ukraine. Her scars are torn open again when she sees her missing boy on her TV screen during a story about Latvia. She is determined to find him and bring him home. Not getting the support she expected from the police, she persuades an ex-intelligence officer who is ready to help her, but it's not that simple! They uncover the activities of a criminal gang and Marcus is happy in his foster home in Latvia. Starring Agnese Cīrule, Rihards Lepers, Aleksandrs Neikens and others as Marcus.

Markuss

2019
Exiled
6.3

In the final years of World War I a retired German field medic is sent to a remote sanatorium for soldiers suffering from post-traumatic mental disorders. There he encounters a strange, dreamlike state of existence that challenges his own war-torn mind.

Exiled

2016
Songs for a Fox
4.7

Dainius, a young rock singer, locks himself away in a secluded country house surrounded by swamps. Hoping to meet his beloved in dreamland, the musician is eagerly assisted in his studies by a local boy exploited by moonshiners.

Songs for a Fox

2022
Homo Novus
8.0

Riga in the 30s. Wild bohemian lifestyle is the name of the game for every artist worth his salt. A young man from the countryside, poor but ambitious, arrives in the capital, where he hopes to make his mark in the artistic circles. What follows is a string of events, fraught with confusion and misunderstanding, hilarious and heart-warming at the same time.

Homo Novus

2018
Gūtenmorgens un Vienciems
N/A

Guttenmorgen leaves the government office to see how people live in the countryside, and on the way he gets stuck in Vienciem.

Gūtenmorgens un Vienciems

2016
Wild East
5.0

A runaway bride, a young peasant, mysterious illusionists and a manic investigator become entwined in a murderous affair at a Baltic German baron's manor.

Wild East

2021
Converts
N/A

Maija is a young and ambitious journalist who wants to do something that no other journalist has dared. In order to conduct a groundbreaking research on Daesh, she pretends to be an Islamic convert and tries to join them.

Converts

2016
Nightbirds
N/A

The family from the 4th floor are reasonably sane people. Krists is a brash teenager who lives in his dreams more than in real world and has a keen interest in the neighbor girl Unda. Ineta, Krist's mother, is a moderately hysteical being, a primary school teacher who devotes all her awake hours to obsessively watching shows on TV. The tranquil balance of this family is disrupted one night when it turns out Krist's world of sleepwalking has began to endanger the life in awake.

Nightbirds

2015
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Izdzīvošanas skola

Firstborn
5.3

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 blackmailer who is forcing him to act against his will.

Firstborn

2017
Mildas istaba
N/A

A documentary about Milda Palēviča (1889–1972), Latvia’s first female philosopher and a doctoral graduate of the Sorbonne, whose independent spirit and intellectual freedom endured despite the hardships of the Soviet era. Facing personal tragedies, a stifling daily reality, censorship, and the destruction of her academic career, Milda nevertheless preserved her inner world and commitment to thought. Her legacy survives in nine diaries written between 1911 and 1972—an extraordinary chronicle that offers a unique female perspective on the dramatic social, political, and cultural transformations of 20th-century Europe.

Mildas istaba

2026
Mirror Man
N/A

Budding lawyer Vik is disappointed in himself. He tries to change and please everyone until he loses sight of himself. Vik meets the mysterious Mirror Man who offers to help him regain his self-esteem and become the kind of person Vik dreams of becoming. Vik agrees, but the Mirror Man at times leaves Vik in situations where he surprises others not just by his new-found self-confidence, but also by insolence that causes a rift with his closest friends. Soon the Mirror Men in Vik’s life are too many to control, and when he tries to back away – it’s too late.

Mirror Man

2015
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Latvian artist Ulla's grant in Rostock leads to a solo show in her sister Darta's city. Amid rising family tensions and an unreachable mother, Ulla and pregnant Darta embark on a transformative journey home, facing unresolved emotions and fractured relationships.

Summer Blues