Pēteris Trups

A group of men go under-ice fishing, but find themselves trapped on a piece of ice, that has broken off. As they are drifting through the sea, the tension between them rises.

Ten year old Sancho arrives to Leningrad and starts looking for friends.

Three hapless “rescuers” respond to surreal or everyday problems.

Prop & Berta is the story of a friendship between a little stout man and a big and proud cow, who are able to talk to each other. Together they confront an ugly and evil witch who is determined to get rid of them because they have moved into a house on the edge of her wood. The witch hates neighbours and through magic and evil planning she turns Prop and Berta's friends, the Teeny burpers, into dangerous hoodlums who begin to terrorize the nearby town. Prop and Berta manage to overcome the witch and turn her into a good person, restoring peace in the little town and breaking the spell which binds their friends.

Based on themes from Latvian folk tales, Cock-a-doodle-doo! tells of how a rich man steals a magic mill from a poor farmer. Eventually the farmer wins back the mill with the help of two loyal friends – a dog and a rooster. The first stop-motion animation film by the Riga Motion Picture Studio, created by four professional puppeteers from the Latvian Puppet Theatre and directed by Arnolds Burovs. The film constituted a successful beginning for a stable and long-standing tradition and is evidence of the intuitive skills of the filmmaker required for stop-motion animation, namely, the ability to work with precision and economy of expression.

Based on Heinrich Heine’s poem, this film traces humanity’s longing for beauty and fulfilment, as expressed through a song about the legendary island of Bimini and its magical well whose waters revive a person’s strength and youth.

A father goes to work in the morning, leaving his young son at home. The boy decides to take care of the birds he sees in the backyard, which he thinks have no real home. He builds a birdhouse and eventually the birds flock to his caring owner's backyard garden. When the parents return home in the evening, they find that the previously quiet and peaceful mansion is surrounded not only by birds but by a veritable garden of beasts...

The country's prime minister travels on a special train to visit the nation. At one stop, the train leaves without a driver. The Emergency Brigade is called and tries its best to stop the train.

Three men, Bembelats, Sīlinks, and Poteriks, work at the Opera, each in their own profession. Due to various comical, but for the men tragic, events, the guys are fired from their jobs. What should they do now? Their thoughts are interrupted by the desperate cries of a child. Without thinking twice, the men rush to save the child. This is how the Emergency Brigade is formed.

Christmas is also coming to the Emergency Brigade House. Silink, Potterick and Bembelat's preparations for a nice evening are interrupted by another call. But you can't refuse a desperate mother whose children are waiting for Father Christmas.

A story about one of the houses inhabited by those who are forced to choose housing at the lowest price. Poor people live here, who have to struggle for existence every day. But despite the difficulties, people do not lose their dreams and help each other in a difficult moment.

Munk and Lemmy's life is, as always, full of surprises. This time, their adventures involve an unusually large and equally unusually hard nut. How do you crack the shell to taste the delicious kernel?

Munks and Lemijs are thinking about how best to cut and divide the pineapple, but then a monkey appears who also really likes pineapples.

When spring comes to the city, the surroundings come alive. The sky becomes bluer, the trees turn green, the birds sing and the sun shines brighter. And, of course, children run into the streets. Among them, a mischievous boy wants to break the starling cage, but he is stopped by the example of an older friend, who teaches him that the surrounding nature must be protected.

This time, the Emergency Brigade's rescue operation takes place in a local hospital, where one of the brigade's dashing boys, Bembelāts, is unexpectedly admitted. His diagnosis is seemingly simple - a cold, or more precisely, a severe runny nose - but he has to experience first-hand the latest medical advances. This continues until... he is rescued from the over-care of the medical profession by his colleagues to discover the old truth: treat or no treat, a runny nose will eventually go away anyway...

Little Tigercrus has had enough of the carrots his mother gives him and goes in search of new treats. His mother follows him and gets trapped in a tree cavity, and as always Munch and his friend Lemmy come to the rescue...

A homeless New York man (looking very much like Charlie Chaplin) dreams about getting himself a warm room and food, and tries various things to fulfill his dream - yet something always goes wrong.

A bearded man decides to take the serious step of removing his beard. But the manly wonder, carefully cultivated over the years, turns out to be so wildly thick that ordinary barber's tools cannot shorten it, let alone remove it altogether.The bewildered man calls the Emergency Brigade, and the three dashing lads do their best to fulfil the bearded man's dream of becoming beardless by any means imaginable. In the end, the desired effect is achieved - the man's face shines like a crescent moon... The only "but" is that his new look doesn't suit him at all. To save the day, the guys of the Emergency Brigade find a clever solution...

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A humorous puppet animation short by the idiosyncratic animation studio "Animācijas brigāde". It's morning in the forest, the Tiger and the Bird are waking up, but their usual morning routine gets interrupted by a misunderstanding that leads them down an eventful path along with all the other animals that happen to get in their way...