Elza Radziņa
Elza Radziņa (February 10, 1917; Kharkiv, Russian Empire – August 18, 2005; Riga, Latvia) was a 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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.2234 |
| Birthday | 1917-02-10 |
| Place of Birth | Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine] |
| Also Known As | Elza Radzina, Эльза Радзиня, Elza Radziņa, Радзиня Эльза Яновна, Elza Šalkone-Radziņa, |
1970
King Lear
6.68/25
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youn...
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King Lear
1970
The Last Relic
6.375/20
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...
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The Last Relic
1964
Hamlet
7.173/55
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. K...
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Hamlet
1976
Favorite
5.4/7
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...
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Favorite
1979
Agent of the Secret Service
6.5/4
Musician Stefan meets a young attractive woman Lidia. Stefan is going on tour to Austria, and Lydia, "accidentally" remembering her Viennese acquainta...
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Agent of the Secret Service
1976
Attack On The Secret Police
7/1
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Attack On The Secret Police
1966
The Swamp Wader
5.25/4
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 K...
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The Swamp Wader
1978
Family Album
0/0
A strong-willed, energetic woman who has earned the deepest respect and authority through her work, but is unhappy in her family life.
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Family Album
1991
Maija and Paija
4/3
A Latvian fairy-tale film based on Anna Brigadere’s classic play. It follows two stepsisters: gentle, hardworking Maija and spoiled, idle Paija whose...
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Maija and Paija
1978
Theatre
6.273/11
The great actress Julia Lambert suddenly realizes that she is, alas, getting old. What can help a woman who has absolutely everything? Only new love....
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Theatre
1973
Blow, Wind!
4/3
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...
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Blow, Wind!
1979
Inspector Goole
4.6/5
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 cont...
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Inspector Goole
1983
Secret of the Blackbirds
6.45/20
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...
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Secret of the Blackbirds
1949
Rainis
9/1
A biopic of Rainis (born as Jānis Pliekšāns), a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician, whose works had a profound influence on the lite...
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Rainis
1973
How the Steel Was Tempered
4.2/5
The path of a young revolutionary during the formation of Soviet power during the Bolshevik coup.
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How the Steel Was Tempered
1981
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
7/3
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 th...
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Sergey Ivanovich Retires
1987
Littlefinger
4.857/7
Little Littlefinger's evil stepmother exploits him amd makes his life very hard, so the little shepherd boy decides to leave home and seek happiness i...
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Littlefinger
1972
Tauriņdeja
6.5/2
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Tauriņdeja
1968
The Times of the Surveyors
6/5
Land surveyors arrive in two parishes to measure and redistribute manor land. The rivalry between both feoffees for land and woman begins.
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The Times of the Surveyors
1970
Devil's Servants
6/7
Three brave Latvian guys - Andris, Peter and Ermanis - justice, friendship and love for the totally inconceivable daring feats. For the feats they fal...
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Devil's Servants
1987
The Photo of a Woman with a Boar
4/9
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...
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The Photo of a Woman with a Boar
1982
Rain Blues
6/1
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 some...
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Rain Blues
1993
The Courage to Kill
0/0
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...
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The Courage to Kill
1970
Klavs - The Son of Martin
0/0
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...
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Klavs - The Son of Martin
2001
Hide-and-seek
4/1
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 t...
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Hide-and-seek
1972
Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill
5.167/6
The 30-year war still goes on. Riga headmasters have decided to submit themselves to mercy of Polish-Lithuanian Duke. Rigas' defenders disagree strong...
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Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill
1970
The Republic of Varnu Street
4.8/4
Children of Varnu Street whose fathers work in nearby factories face the "Tuliana Empire" - a group of boys, children of merchants from the nearby Lau...
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The Republic of Varnu Street
1974
Olegs and Aina
8.5/2
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Olegs and Aina
1978
Behind Glass Door
0/0
Gunar Berg is studying at the Polytechnic Institute. He is eighteen years old and comes from a well-off family. In order to not be financially depende...
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Behind Glass Door
1976
Death Under Sail
5.7/7
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 wi...
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Death Under Sail
1974
Maritime Climates
0/0
The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power hadn’t got worrie...
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Maritime Climates
1986
We Accuse
9/1
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 pr...
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We Accuse
1975
Defying Fate
0/0
The events of the film take place in Latvia during the 1930s to the 1950s. Klinta, a young, poor, and naive villager, studies music in a nearby provin...
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Defying Fate
1984
The Last Visit
7/1
During one of her business trips, journalist Saira Burton receives news of her husband Tom's death. Believing it to be murder, she begins her own inve...
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