Gunārs Piesis

Gunārs Piesis

Known for

Directing

Life

1931 – 1996 (aged 64)

Born in

Latvia

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Biography

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