Dzidra Ritenberga

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Dzidra Ritenberga (also: Dsidra Rittenbergs , Russian Дзидра Артуровна Ритенберг . Dsidra Arturovna Ritenberg ; born August 29, 1928 in Mežildzere, rural community Dundaga ; † March 9, 2003 in Riga ), was a Latvian actress and director .

Life

Dzidra Ritenberga on the poster for the 1957 movie Malwa . Illustrator: Helmuth Ellgaard .

Dzidra Ritenberga was born in a Latvian village in 1928. She completed her acting training at the Latvian Art Theater J. Rainis in Riga, which she successfully completed in 1948. She then began a career as a stage actress and was a member of the Liepāja Dramatic Theater from 1948 to 1957 . There she met the director Nikolajs Mūrnieks, who recognized and promoted her talent. In 1957 she returned to the Latvian Art Theater before she joined the ensemble of the Stanislavski Theater in Moscow from 1962 . There she was seen in theater roles until 1974.

Parallel to her theater work, Ritenberga made her film debut as an actress in 1956. A year later she became known to an international audience through the title role in Vladimir Braun's Latvian-language feature film Malwa , in which she can be seen alongside Anatoly Ignatjew and Pavel Ussownitschenko . The film adaptation of Maxim Gorky's novel of the same name received an invitation to compete at the Venice Film Festival in 1957 , where Ritenberga was awarded the Coppa Volpi as the best actress at the film festival. For her portrait of the attractive and restless wife of a provincial fisherman, who turns the heads of all men in the village and enters into a love triangle, the competition jury around the French director René Clair preferred the 29-year-old to well-known actresses such as the American Eva Marie Saint ( poisonous snow ) or last year's Swiss winner Maria Schell ( white nights ). Ritenberga was then regularly represented as a film actress in Soviet cinema, both in Latvian and Russian-language productions. But it could no longer build on its early international success. In 1973 Ritenberga trained as a director at the Latvian Conservatory in Riga. From the mid-1970s she directed several feature films. Her last work was Valsis mūža garumā (international English-language distribution title: Waltzing Through Live ), which was shown in 1991 at the Soviet film festival Women and Cinema in Moscow.

Ritenberga was married to the well-known Soviet actor Yevgeny Urbansky (1932-1965), with whom she had worked, among other things, at the Stanislavsky Theater in Moscow. He died while filming at the age of 33. Their daughter Eugenie emerged from the marriage, who later started a successful singing career. Before marrying Urbansky, she was in a relationship with the married Soviet actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov . In the last years of her life, Ritenberga suffered from heart disease and lived in seclusion with her three dogs. She died in 2003 at the age of 75 as a result of the disease. The Latvian politician and former filmmaker Rihards Pīks remembered her as an “admirable woman, full of vitality” who would have fascinated many people at home and abroad. As early as 1960 she had been named " Honored Artist of the Latvian SSR " . Ritenberga found her final resting place in the Meža kapi cemetery in Riga.

Filmography (selection)

actress

  • 1956: Cēloņi un sekas
  • 1956: Malwa (Malva)
  • 1959: Atbalss
  • 1972: Kara ceļa mantinieki
  • 1974: Dunduriņš
  • 1976: Mans draugs - nenopietns cilvēks
  • 1984: Durvis, kas tev atvērtas
  • 1998: Palīgā (TV series)

Director

  • 1976: Šīs bīstamās balkona durvis
  • 1979: Trīs minūšu lidojums
  • 1980: Vakara variants
  • 1982: Pats garākais salmiņš
  • 1985: Svešs gadījums
  • 1986: Pēdējā reportāža
  • 1988: Māja bez izejas
  • 1990: Valsis mūža garumā

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cf. Biography at Soviet Screen (Russian; accessed September 5, 2008)
  2. ↑ cf. Portrait ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at filmas.lv (Latvian; accessed September 5, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmas.lv
  3. ^ Anna Tatarinova: Women and Cinema Festival starts in Moscow . TASS , March 4, 1991.
  4. ↑ cf. Biography at proekt-wms.narod.ru (Russian; accessed on September 5, 2008)
  5. ↑ cf. In Other News Bay 5 PM In Latvia ... Baltic News Service, March 14, 2003
  6. ↑ cf. Upcoming Events In Latvia For Friday ... Baltic News Service, March 14, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Ritenberga, Dzidra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritenberga, Dsidra; Ritenbergs, Dzidra; Ritenbergs, Dsidra; Ритенберг, Дзидра Артуровна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Mežildzere, Dundaga Rural Municipality , Latvia
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2003
Place of death Riga , Latvia