Silvija Līce, a film and theater scientist, has been spent forever

Silvija Līce, a film and theater scientist, author of documentary screenplays and many books, translator and language teacher, passed away on August 29 at the age of 80.

Līce was one of the first Latvian film scientists with a degree from the Institute of Language and Literature of the Latvian Academy of Sciences (LAS) and a postgraduate degree from the USSR Institute of Art Research in Moscow. Her research approach is characterized by objective analysis and accuracy in the presentation of facts. She was also a researcher at the LAS Institute for a long time.

The monograph “Classics of Latvian Literature in Cinema” (1977) is recorded in the creative biography of the bay, as well as she has been a co-author of the work “Soviet Latvian Cinema” (1989) and others. In her works, Līce has thoroughly analyzed and evaluated the film editing and visual quality. She has created a book about cinematographer Māris Rudzīte (1983), as well as a collection of portraits of actor filmmakers “They formed the visual image of Latvian art films” (1995).

Creative personalities were sensitively revealed in the Gulf’s works through documentary evidence and interviews. The collection “About myself, about my life, about my work in cinema” (1991) contains portraits of Līce about Latvian directors, portrait books about cinema and theater actors and opera singers – “Valdemārs Zandbergs” (1987), “The story of a happy person” about baritone Pēteris Gravel (1990), “Documentary Fantasy” about Alexander Polakov (1992), “Lydia Freimane: I Tell My Children” (1992 and 2001), “Without the White House” (1995), “Inese Galante” (1999).

As a translator, Līce has regularly translated English and French films for Latvian Television, including literary rich texts such as Tennessee Williams’ “Orpheus Goes to Hell”, Lev Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”, Gista Flaubert’s “Mrs. Bovari”, Scott Fitzgerald’s “It’s a Mild Night”. and other classic masterpieces.