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Juris Podnieks
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- 1
Top works
- Legko li bytʹ molodoĭ?
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Film & TV
Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR
Juris Podnieks was born in Riga, Latvia in 1950. He graduated from the celebrated Soviet film school, VGIK, in 1975. He went to work at the Riga studio, first as assistant cameraman, then as cameraman before finally becoming a director in 1979. His first production "The Cradle" won a prize at the Leipzig Festival, and shortly afterwards "The Brothers Kokari” took first prize at the Kiev Youth…
Known for
- Podnieks On Podnieks. A Witness To History — Self (archival footage)2024
- Flashback2003
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Latvia
- Place of birth
- Riga
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Educated at
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
- Languages spoken
- Latvian
- Award
- Order of Viesturs
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- date of birth
- 1950-12-05
- date of death
- 1992-06-23
- manner of death
- accidental death
- cause of death
- drowning
- place of burial
- Forest Cemetery
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