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Gunārs Piesis
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Film & TV
Latvia
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
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Riga
- Place of death
- Riga
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Educated at
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
- Languages spoken
- Latvian
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- date of birth
- 1931-06-19
- place of burial
- Rainis Cemetery
- date of death
- 1996-02-09
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