
Elza Radziņa
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.352 |
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
6.7/21
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
6.6/18
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
7.3/49
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

Favorit
5.429/7
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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Favorit

1979

Agent of the Secret Service
5/1
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
3.3/3
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...
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The Swamp Wader

1978

Family Album
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1990

Maija and Paija
1/2
Fairytale of the the good girl and the bad girl, who gets the prince?
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Maija and Paija

1978

Theatre
6/8
Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.
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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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1983

Secret of the Blackbirds
6.2/17
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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1949

Rainis
0/0
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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1973

How the Steel Was Tempered
3.5/4
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1981

Sergey Ivanovich Retires
6.5/2
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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1993

The Courage to Kill
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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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1987

The Photo of a Woman with a Boar
3.5/7
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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1987

Littlefinger
4.333/6
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 t...
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1982

Rain Blues
6/1
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1972

Tauriņdeja
6.5/2
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1970

Devil's Servants
5.8/5
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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1968

The Times of the Surveyors
5.5/4
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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1970

Klavs - The Son of Martin
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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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2001

Hide-and-seek
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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
4.5/4
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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1970

The Republic of Varnu Street
4.3/3
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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1974

Olegs and Aina
8.5/2
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1976

Death Under Sail
5.667/6
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1978

Behind Glass Door
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1974

Maritime Climates
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1986

We Accuse
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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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