Laima Žurgina

Laima Žurgina (born September 24, 1943 in Riga ) is a Latvian documentary film director and screenwriter.

Life

Laima Žurgina graduated from the State All-Union Institute for Cinematography (WGIK) in Moscow from 1963 to 1968 , and subsequently worked on film portraits of leading representatives from the fields of art and culture. Her diploma thesis dealt with the solo dancer of the Bolshoi Theater Maris Liepa (1971). From May 1968 to June 1990 she worked as a director in the Riga Film Studio and directed over fifty documentaries and more than one hundred newsreels. Since then she has been working freelance.

Her documentaries have received multiple awards and are often about family relationships, sport and the life and work of Latvian artists and cultural workers.

Žurgina ran in 2001 for election to the Riga City Council for the Latvian Way party .

Filmography (selection)

• 1971: Maris Liepa
• 1977: Raimund Pauls - Portrait of a Musician ( Raimonds Pauls )
• 1979: Imants Sijedonis - Portrait in Cases
• 1980: Entrance exam into family life
• 1980: Golden Sleigh
• 1985: The ugly duckling - a human child
• 1990: They are my sons too ( Tie ir mani dēli )
• 2004: Mana mīļā Rīga

literature

• Uwe Kleinert in expressions what moves people ; Film Spiegel No. 8, 1987 - pages 10 and 11

Web links

• Laima Žurgina in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Information about the artist on latfilma.lv (in English)
• Režisors, Scenārija autori ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of candidates for the 2001 election of the Riga City Council ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.