Аватар персоны Gunārs Piesis

Gunārs Piesis

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Gunārs Piesis represents the first generation of professionally schooled Latvian directors. Piesis was the first one to dare to adapt Rainis for the screen. Gunārs Piesis was also the first to turn to Latvian fairy-tales

19-06-1931

Birthday

Gemini

Zodiac Sign

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Latvia

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

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producer

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director

20 Works

writer

8 Works

other

2 Works

Maija and Paija

Maija and Paija

Fairytale of the the good girl and the bad girl, who gets the prince?
1.0

Year:

1990

Littlefinger

Littlefinger

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...
4.3

Year:

1987

Littlefinger

Littlefinger

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...
4.3

Year:

1987

Littlefinger

Littlefinger

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...
4.3

Year:

1987

The Game

The Game

6.0

Year:

1981

Laikmetu griežos

Laikmetu griežos

A film based on novels by Latvian writer Andrejs Upīts tells a story about Latvian peasants around the 16th/17th century when they were under the role of several other countries.
0.0

Year:

1981

Laikmetu griežos

Laikmetu griežos

A film based on novels by Latvian writer Andrejs Upīts tells a story about Latvian peasants around the 16th/17th century when they were under the role of several other countries.
0.0

Year:

1981

Your Son

Your Son

7.0

Year:

1978

Your Son

Your Son

7.0

Year:

1978

Male Games in the Open Air

Male Games in the Open Air

Relations of two sportsmen who often forget that they are not the only ones in the stadium.
0.0

Year:

1978

Blow, Wind!

Blow, Wind!

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.
4.0

Year:

1973

Blow, Wind!

Blow, Wind!

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.
4.0

Year:

1973

In the Shadow of Death

In the Shadow of Death

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.
5.5

Year:

1972

In the Shadow of Death

In the Shadow of Death

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.
5.5

Year:

1972

Rīgas parki

Rīgas parki

A film about parks in Riga and their historical past and present.
0.0

Year:

1969

Rīgas parki

Rīgas parki

A film about parks in Riga and their historical past and present.
0.0

Year:

1969

Memory of the Land

Memory of the Land

0.0

Year:

1965

Memory of the Land

Memory of the Land

0.0

Year:

1965

Salacgrīva

Salacgrīva

0.0

Year:

1961

Kārkli pelēkie zied

Kārkli pelēkie zied

A film about the intertwined fates of ordinary students and the artists of a youth theatre.
0.0

Year:

1961