Elza Radziņa

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.

  • Popularity : 1.564
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1917-02-10
  • Place of Birth : Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
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Elza Radziņa Movies

  • 1970
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    King Lear

    King Lear

    6.7 1970 HD

    King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...

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  • 1970
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    The Last Relic

    The Last Relic

    6.6 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1964
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    Hamlet

    Hamlet

    7.2 1964 HD

    Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev....

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  • 1976
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    Favorit

    Favorit

    5.3 1976 HD

    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...

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  • 1979
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    Agent of the Secret Service

    Agent of the Secret Service

    5 1979 HD

    Musician Stefan meets a young attractive woman Lidia. Stefan is going on tour to Austria, and Lydia, "accidentally" remembering her Viennese...

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  • 1976
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    Attack On The Secret Police

    Attack On The Secret Police

    7 1976 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Swamp Wader

    The Swamp Wader

    1 1966 HD

    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...

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  • 1978
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    Family Album

    Family Album

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1990
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    Maija and Paija

    Maija and Paija

    1 1990 HD

    Fairytale of the the good girl and the bad girl, who gets the prince?

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  • 1978
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    Theatre

    Theatre

    6 1978 HD

    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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  • 1973
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    Blow, Wind!

    Blow, Wind!

    4 1973 HD

    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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  • 1979
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    Inspector Goole

    Inspector Goole

    4.6 1979 HD

    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...

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  • 1983
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    Secret of the Blackbirds

    Secret of the Blackbirds

    6.2 1983 HD

    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
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    Rainis

    Rainis

    1 1949 HD

    A biopic of Rainis (born as Jānis Pliekšāns), a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician, whose works had a profound influence...

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  • 1973
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    How the Steel Was Tempered

    How the Steel Was Tempered

    3.5 1973 HD

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  • 1981
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    Sergey Ivanovich Retires

    Sergey Ivanovich Retires

    6 1981 HD

    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...

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  • 1987
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    Littlefinger

    Littlefinger

    4.4 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    Tauriņdeja

    Tauriņdeja

    6.5 1972 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Times of the Surveyors

    The Times of the Surveyors

    6.7 1968 HD

    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
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    Devil's Servants

    Devil's Servants

    5.8 1970 HD

    Three brave Latvian guys - Andris, Peter and Ermanis - justice, friendship and love for the totally inconceivable daring feats. For the feats they...

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  • 1987
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    The Photo of a Woman with a Boar

    The Photo of a Woman with a Boar

    3.5 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Rain Blues

    Rain Blues

    6 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    The Courage to Kill

    The Courage to Kill

    1 1993 HD

    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....

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  • 1970
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    Klavs - The Son of Martin

    Klavs - The Son of Martin

    1 1970 HD

    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
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    Hide-and-seek

    Hide-and-seek

    1 2001 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill

    Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill

    4.5 1972 HD

    The 30-year war still goes on. Riga headmasters have decided to submit themselves to mercy of Polish-Lithuanian Duke. Rigas' defenders disagree...

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  • 1970
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    The Republic of Varnu Street

    The Republic of Varnu Street

    4.3 1970 HD

    Children of Varnu Street whose fathers work in nearby factories face the "Tuliana Empire" - a group of boys, children of merchants from the nearby...

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  • 1974
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    Olegs and Aina

    Olegs and Aina

    8.5 1974 HD

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  • 1978
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    Behind Glass Door

    Behind Glass Door

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1976
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    Death Under Sail

    Death Under Sail

    6.6 1976 HD

    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...

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  • 1974
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    Maritime Climates

    Maritime Climates

    1 1974 HD

    The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power...

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  • 1986
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    We Accuse

    We Accuse

    1 1986 HD

    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...

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  • 1979
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    Театр

    Театр

    5.5 1979 HD

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  • 1977
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    Смерть под парусом

    Смерть под парусом

    7.3 1977 HD

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  • 1964
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    Гамлет

    Гамлет

    1 1964 HD

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