The "Sea Pearl" festival celebrates the opening ceremony of the Riga Festival / Article / LSM.LV



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On July 30, the 2nd International Festival of Theater and Cinema "Sea Pearl" was inaugurated in the Dzintari concert hall in Jurmala. The opening event was intended to celebrate an ambitious 70th anniversary of the Riga Festival, which was attended by Latvian actors and directors who were then very popular in the Soviet Union for cinema.

The program included songs and music from cinemas that were taken in Riga during the blooming studio years and are part of the Latvian and Soviet cinema gold fund. Among the honorable guests of the opening concert of the Jūras pērle Theater and Music Festival were Latvian actors and directors who worked at the Riga Film Studio at a time when at least eight feature films were made each year, thanks to the orders from the Soviet Union.

"I experienced the golden age of the Riga Film Studio, and not only that, but I caught my time," said Roland Zagorsky.

Each actor has his own memoirs about the time when a broad public of fraternal republicans provided visibility and popularity.

"Me, for example, I was in the role of, due to the fact that the main actress refused to sing in Latvian. Mircea Zīvere had already healed her, she was not her husband. "I did not like it, and I took it to the end," Lelde Vikmane said. "When I arrived in Riga – the rut, returned from the Soviet Army, I suddenly got in touch with the film industry, and every summer I was heading to a wonderful film expedition funded by the state, "said actor Andris Bērziņš. "Everyone in Latvia has a lot of money in a free country, but it is hardly possible to tidy up and reinstall the studio.It is sad."

"Sometimes refresh the monotony of the theater one day playing the same thing.Here we must be ready, "said actor Juris Strenga.

On the other hand, director Rolands Kalnins pointed out, "I just lived in there, and living means working!"

The festival's live concerts were broadcast live on Russian television, for which there was no special information for visitors. The leaders of the event – the brothers Andrejs and Juris Žagari – celebrated the anniversary celebrations of the Riga Festival and the most popular Latvian film fragments in Russia

although the organizers of the festival promised to meet Raimondu Paul. The actress Valentina Talizina, who in Russian had supported the role of Mart in the movie "Long Way to the Dunes," performed a lullaby "Shout Christmas" in the concert.

International Festival of Theater and Cinema will last four days in the Dzintari concert hall, offering the audience a theatrical evening, the day of Russian cinema and the CIS, but the festival will conclude a world concert of cinema

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