«Andrejs Upīts watches cinema» – will screen films about outstanding cultural workers / Article / LSM.lv

On September 30, Andrejs Upītis Memorial Museum in Riga will host an event “Andrejs Upīts watches cinema”, which will show unique, recently digitized amateur films about outstanding Latvian cultural workers, the Memorial Museums Association informed.

At the very end of his life, when the writer’s health deteriorated, television was helped to follow events in public and cultural life – a gift from the Writers’ Union on his 90th birthday, so it is natural that talks about cinema, as well as cinema evenings at the Andrejs Upītis Memorial Museum explained the museum representatives.

This time, in cooperation with the Museum of Literature and Music, the event will feature recently digitized 16 mm amateur films about cultural workers from Vecpiebalga (“Deep Roots”, 1967), writer Roberts Sēlis (1964), singers Milda Brehman-Stengele ( “Life for a Song”, 1968), Tāli Matīss (“Song Hill”, 1974), Rūdolfs Bērziņš (“People’s Song”, 1969). The unique films will tell about the conductor Leonid Wigner on the 60th anniversary of the current Small Guild and about the house of Eduards Smiļģis in the period after Smiļģis’ death and before the establishment of the theater museum.

The event will also feature excerpts from the film “Piltene Prāģeri” (1922) directed by singer and couplet Robert Vizbulis, which is the oldest surviving feature film shot in the Republic of Latvia, and “Viķeša Mill” (1932, in the role of White Cat – Arveds Mihels) )).

The event will be hosted by Dzintars Gilba, an art expert at the Museum of Literature and Music.

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