On March 26 of this year, the popular actor and singer celebrates his 70th anniversary Jānis Paukštello. The Latvian State Archive of Film and Photophono Documents and the website “filmas.lv”, congratulating the artist on its anniversary, offer various archive materials with moments from the work of Jānis Paukštello, as well as a number of films with his participation.
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The artist has repeatedly admitted that in his creative life there has been one film – “My friend – a frivolous person”, one role in the theater – Jāzeps (“Jāzeps and his brothers”), one song – “Cielaviņa”. However, the work of Jānis Paukštello is much richer. It has more than 40 film roles in feature films and TV series in Latvian and other countries, where every fan of cinema and Jānis Paukštello’s talent has his own interesting, close and popular image depicted by the artist. But in the forty-five years spent on the Daile Theater stage, he has played more than 150 roles.
As a singing actor Jānis Paukštello has been involved in various musical projects – in the ensemble of actors “Eternal Eison”, he has given concerts with Raimonds Pauls and Harry Spanovskis, Laila Ilze Purmalietis. There are many poetry readings, work in radio theater productions and Latvian Christian Radio. Jānis Pukštello has been a popular host of various cultural events.
The Latvian State Archive of Film and Photophono Documents joins the admirers of Jānis Paukštello’s talent, congratulating the artist on his anniversary, and offers to get acquainted with the photos of the actor’s professional activities, watch the excerpt from the Latvian radio song survey “Mikrofons-82”, in which the artist performs as a laureate with Raimonds Pauls song “Cielaviņa”.
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In turn, a special film collection dedicated to Jānis Paukštello has been created on the website “filmas.lv”, in which six motion pictures with the participation of an actor can be viewed free of charge.
“I like the atmosphere of the cinema itself, the constant readiness to act,” the actor said in an interview in the 1970s. Jānis Paukštello. “You think, try, find what you need, and – please the engine!” His first appearance on the screen was an episodic role, Raibais in the film “Keys of the City” (1973), but already his second film role made the actor famous all over Latvia and for many years – Arvīds Lasmanis in Jānis Streičs’ household comedy “My friend is a serious person“(1975, restored in 2016) is one of the peaks of Jānis Paukštello’s acting life.” Our victory is Paukštello’s special radiance, naivety and childhood was our cover, “director Daira Āboliņa explains Jānis Streičs’ magical realism , but Jānis Paukštello himself said in an interview: “Strike is the greatest authority in cinema, I can thank him that I have believed in myself as an actor.”
The collection of the portal “filmas.lv” includes three more feature films by Jānis Streičs, where Jānis Paukštello has played a different character in each. The Drama of the Postwar Years »Foreign passions“(1983, restored in 2016) he has a small but colorful role – his neighbor Ezeriņš, who lost not only one eye but also his wife in the war, remaining alone with three small girls. Director Jānis Streičs has also cherished this episodic image:” Ezerins is like a tomcat in boots, such a naive conqueror of the world, a co-runner of new power. For who sane person could side with the Bolsheviks? So I invented him long fishing boots. Who in the countryside, in Zemgale, would need them? Clearly, he “nationalized”, deprived someone “bourgeois.”
Director Streičs Jānis Paukštello has given another key role in the film “It easily falls in an overgrown ditch“(1986) – Vitolds, the secretary of the kolkhoz party organization, is almost a relative of Arvīds Lasmanis, a naive idealist who fights from the heart for a better life for all people, but proves powerless in the stagnant and grotesque reality of the Soviets. film tapes, the Latvian State Archives of the Latvian State Archive of Film and Photophono Documents working with the new film digitization equipment purchased in the ERDF project Digitization of Cultural Heritage Content.
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And another film by Jānis Paukštello in the film Streičs – Boņuk’s father Aleksandrs Paulāns in the classic Gold Fund film “Human child“(1991). Jānis Paukštello, the father of a large family, has also played in the feature film of director Vara Brasla”Christmas jampadracis“(1993, restored in 2020), where he is a poor music teacher Valdemārs and takes care of five children in the musical Cīrulīši family.
The collection on the portal is closed by a film that is only available to viewers for a week – Jānis Paukštello’s latest film role so far, the most energetic and also the most shameless of pensioners in the comedy of directors Māris Putniņš and Jānis Cimmermansis “Jimla-ore-rally!“(2014, FORMA study).
All movies in the collection Actor Jānis Paukštello, from March 26, you can watch for free on the portal of the National Cinema Center filmas.lv on the screens of various devices and throughout the territory of Latvia, wherever the Internet is available.
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