Elza Radziņa
Also Known As: Elza Radzina, Эльза Радзиня, Elza Radziņa, Радзиня Эльза Яновна, Elza Šalkone-Radziņa
Biography: Elza Radziņa (February 10, 1917; Kharkiv, Russian Empire – August 18, 2005; Riga, Latvia) was a Soviet Latvian theater and cinema actress, master of the spoken word (reader). She received award of People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Order of the Three Stars in 1995. She studied in Jelgava theater studio in 1942. After the World War II worked in Jelgava Drama theater (1945-1953). For a brief moment she worked in Valmiera Drama theater, but from 1954 worked in Latvian National Theater, where she became one of the leading actresses. In 1949 she made her debut in biographical drama film "Rainis" from Riga Film Studio.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
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Birthday: February 10, 1917
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 18, 2005
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King Lear
Overview: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-12-15
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The Last Relic
Overview: A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movie is still the best achievement of the Estonian cinema. Based on a novel.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1970-03-23
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Hamlet
Overview: Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Favorit
Overview: Alan York is a race horse jockey who sees his friend and chief rival jockey fall to his death during a steeplechase race. Alan knows it could not have been an accident. He pursues clues while meeting a lovely young lady and her fascinating uncle, until he finally discovers why his friend died... and why he is next to die.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-06-01
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Agent of the Secret Service
Overview: Musician Stefan meets a young attractive woman Lidia. Stefan is going on tour to Austria, and Lydia, "accidentally" remembering her Viennese acquaintance, asks to give her a souvenir from Moldova. In Vienna, Stefan is met by people who are well aware of his private life and even familiar with his diary. The musician begins to suspect something is wrong, but when his daughter's well-being is threatened, Stefan becomes truly worried...
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-03-25
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Attack On The Secret Police
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Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1976-04-12
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The Swamp Wader
Overview: In this film, set in Latvia in the late 19th century, Edgars, the coachman of Alaine Manor, loves Kristine, the washerwoman's daughter, although he is too hot-headed for Kristine's mother to consider him a good suitor for his daughter. The servant Viskrelis and stable boy Sutka try to tempt Edgars to a life of drinking and a relationship with the barmaid Matilde. Meanwhile, Kristine is courted by the rich land owner, Akmentins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1966-07-13
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Family Album
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Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1978-01-04
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Maija and Paija
Overview: Fairytale of the the good girl and the bad girl, who gets the prince?
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1991-07-15
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Theatre
Overview: Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1978-10-15
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Blow, Wind!
Overview: Based on a stage play of the same name by the one of the biggest names in the history of Latvian literature Rainis, "Put, vejini" tells a story of an unconventional love that blossoms between the handsome, wealthy and impetuous merchant Uldis and the timid, humble and clear-hearted orphan Baiba.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Inspector Goole
Overview: Sudden arrival of a police inspector in the middle of a bourgeois family's dinner party reveals various sordid and shameful secrets that may have contributed to the recent suicide of an impoverished young woman.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-09-13
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Secret of the Blackbirds
Overview: Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-11-21
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Rainis
Overview: A biopic of Rainis (born as Jānis Pliekšāns), a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician, whose works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism.
Genres: History
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1949-01-26
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How the Steel Was Tempered
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-11-03
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Sergey Ivanovich Retires
Overview: Accountant Sergey Ivanovich is retiring. Finally, he will be able to devote all his free time to his family: he will help his daughter Natalya with the housework, raise his granddaughter, visit his sons who live in different cities... But it turns out that adult children do not need parental care, and Sergei Ivanovich feels uneasy at work...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-04-20
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Littlefinger
Overview: Little Tom Thumb's evil stepmother exploits him amd makes his life very hard, so the little shepherd boy decides to leave home and seek happiness in the world outside. There little Tom Thumb meets the Wind Mother, Forest Mother and a little old man on his way. Each of them gives him a chore to do that earns him a gift with magical power, which comes in handy when he has to defeat Scrooges, Lop-Eared Man and the Devil himself. While traveling in the world and looking for happiness, he realises he misses his grandmother and little sister...
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1987-01-03
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Tauriņdeja
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1972-01-03
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The Times of the Surveyors
Overview: Land surveyors arrive in two parishes to measure and redistribute manor land. The rivalry between both feoffees for land and woman begins.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Devil's Servants
Overview: Three brave Latvian guys - Andris, Peter and Ermanis - justice, friendship and love for the totally inconceivable daring feats. For the feats they fall under, because opponent side is the power and the power, the court, and sometimes your opponent is not allowed for the mind and the quickness ... Brave young men spend their energy demand, enhance and support the three maidens, who love them and that they love: Ruta, Anna and Leene, like a brave and smart, funny and witty. There is no enemy that can stand against these six - for their joint efforts and together put in mind.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1970-12-30
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The Photo of a Woman with a Boar
Overview: The 1980s. Kārlis did his military service in Afghanistan and is now confined to a wheelchair. Before he left, he had fallen in love with the teacher Judīte, but she has now married a rich man...and poses nude for Kārlis' neighbour, the cynical photographer Rūdofs. Soon Rūdolfs is found dead, and Kārlis admits to having murdered him. But investigator Konrāds suspects that Kārlis is incriminating himself.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1987-07-12
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Rain Blues
Overview: A lonely thirty year-old woman lives in a small apartment on the edge of town. She meets a man, life looks brighter, but she suspects he’s hiding something from her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1982-12-20
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The Courage to Kill
Overview: Erik lives by night. He works in a nightclub and occasionally dresses up as a woman to rob rich clients. One day Erik's father arrives uninvited. It's a surprise visit that brings out memories of complicated childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1993-08-16
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Klavs - The Son of Martin
Overview: The son of Martins Viksna, the collective farm chairman, Klavs comes home from the military service and starts working in his native kolkhoz but does not understand his colleagues, so he goes to town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1970-12-07
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Hide-and-seek
Overview: 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. Gradually, Anderson is convinced that Oto has not only killed his wife, but he also tries to hide his true identity – notorious criminal Schmit.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill
Overview: The 30-year war still goes on. Riga headmasters have decided to submit themselves to mercy of Polish-Lithuanian Duke. Rigas' defenders disagree strongly and steal the ceremonial Key of Riga. Will they succeed in their fight against all odds? Will three Latvian musketeers have their happily ever after?
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1972-07-12
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The Republic of Varnu Street
Overview: Children of Varnu Street whose fathers work in nearby factories face the "Tuliana Empire" - a group of boys, children of merchants from the nearby Lauku Street.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1970-11-09
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Olegs and Aina
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Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1974-05-27
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Behind Glass Door
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Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1978-01-03
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Death Under Sail
Overview: Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his heart, all six fall under suspicion.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1976-06-06
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Maritime Climates
Overview: The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power hadn’t got worried by the rushes they saw, which lead them to terminate the production. In 1992, Rolands Kalniņš made this edit of the remaining material – an elegy to lost hopes and illusions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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We Accuse
Overview: On May 1, 1960, on the eve of the meeting of the heads of government of the USSR and the United States, American pilot Francis Powers carried out a provocative "Flight" action on a Lockheed U-2 aircraft. While crossing the border, the plane was shot down, and a secret CIA agent, pilot Powers, appeared in court, and soon fully admitted his guilt. Fragments of the process and all the events related to the provocative flight are reproduced with documentary accuracy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-04-04
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