Rodrigo Rikards ( Latvian: Rodrigo Rikards ; September 20, 1941, Riga, USSR - April 01, 2014, Riga, Latvia) - Soviet, Latvian director, screenwriter, documentary cameraman. Cavalier of the Order of the Three Stars - the highest state award of the Republic of Latvia (2003) [1] [2] .
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| Date of Birth | September 20, 1941 |
| Place of Birth | Riga , USSR |
| Date of death | April 1, 2014 (72 years old) |
| A place of death | Riga , Latvia |
| Citizenship |  the USSR  Latvia |
| Profession | film director , screenwriter |
| Career | 1964 - 2014 |
| Direction | Documentary film |
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| IMDb | ID 2748731 |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Selected Filmography
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Rodrigo Ricards was born in Riga in 1941. After graduating from high school in 1960, he joined the Latvian television as an assistant operator. Later he graduated with honors from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow [1] . As a thesis, he shot the first color film on the Latvian television “Half an hour in Latvia” [3] . From 1965 to 1995 he worked as a director, cameraman and screenwriter at Telefilma-Riga studio. He took a direct part in the events of January 1991 in Riga , where he filmed a chronicle of the ongoing confrontation [4] . In 1995, he created his own studio of visual art, Scilla. He shot low-budget films. At the same time he painted, published books.
Over the years of creative activity he shot himself or directly participated in the creation of more than 100 documentaries. One of the most famous "Sirdsdaugava", released in 1987 in protest against the construction of the Daugavpils hydroelectric station . The film won the first prize at the International Film Festival in Freiburg and was the first film in Latvia to be shown on foreign television.
Selected Filmography
- 1972 - “A letter from your father’s house”;
- 1979 - “Wind from the Sea” (on the environmental problems of the Baltic Sea);
- 1987 - “Sirdsdaugava” (Protest against the construction of the Daugavpils Hydroelectric Power Station);
- 1988 - “Exile. Rainis. Castagnola ”(On the forced emigration of the poet and thinker Rainis to Switzerland );
- 1991 - “Latvian Churches”;
- 1991-1992 - “The Amber Way” (3 films. On the historical Amber Way from the Baltic Sea to the shores of the Roman Empire );
- 1998 - “People of my house. Andrejs Eglitis "(About the Latvian poet and public figure);
- 2000 - “Tempus perfectum” (Producer. On the international festival of early music in Latvia);
- 2000 - “Savior and the Saved” (On the Latvian Janis Lipka , who saved 350 Jews during the Second World War );
- 2001 - Aspasia (About the Latvian poetess and playwright);
- 2001 - “Colonel Oscar Kalpaks” (On the first commander of the Latvian national units );
- 2001 - “Existing in music. Leonids Wigners ”(About the Latvian composer );
- 2002 - “The Truth about the Latvian Legion” (Author's view of the formation and actions of the Latvian Volunteer SS Legion );
- 2002 - “The heyday of Latvia”;
- 2003 - “The Latvian National Partisan War”;
- 2010 - “100 years and brushes. Margarita Stipnieks. "
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Mūžībā aizgājis režisors Rodrigo Rikards (lit.) . Kulturasdiena.lv (04/02/2014). Date of treatment January 27, 2015.
- ↑ Miris režisors Rodrigo Rikards (lit.) . Autortiesības (04/02/2014). Date of treatment January 27, 2015.
- ↑ The famous Latvian documentary filmmaker Rodrigo Rikards Has died . focus.lv (04/02/2014). Date of treatment January 27, 2015.
- ↑ Oshkaya I. And Russians in Latvia - Latvians (lit.) . Izdevniecības nams Vesti (10/07/2013). Date of treatment January 27, 2015.
Links
Rodrigo Rickards on the Internet Movie Database