Rainis

  • January 1949
  • 1hr

    37mins

  • History
  • Directed by

    Yuli Raizman,

    Starring

    Jānis Grantiņš,

    Milda Klētniece,

    Artūrs Filipsons,

    Elza Radziņa

    ...

    A biopic of Rainis (born as Jānis Pliekšāns), a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician, whose works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism.