The 95th anniversary of Gunaras Placena is celebrated in the Daile / Diena Theater

The relatives of the theater, the folks of Daile, honored the colleague with heartfelt speeches and reminiscences, as very well as several musical greetings from the exhibits the actor attended, possessing been on the phase of the Daile Theater for 70 years.

The same previous maestro thanked his colleagues for the distinctive vacation sensation and the many years put in jointly at the Daile Theater.

Gunārs Placēns: “Many thanks to Eduard Smilģis, who employed me. I are not able to depend how many directors I worked with in basic. They came and went, new ones came back. Thanks also to all my colleagues and associates who have been with me in these several yrs, many thanks also to the dressers, hairdressers, make-up artists, all the artists. And, of course, many thanks also to my beloved spectators “.

Gunārs Placen has been an actor at the Daile Theater for 70 many years. After graduating from the Vestienas School of Agriculture and Livestock and the Vecbebru Complex School of Beekeeping and Horticulture, Gunārs Placens entered the Latvian Increased College of Theater and Choreography, which in the course of his research grew to become the Condition Theater Institute of the LPSR. He concluded it in 1951, when Eduards Smilģis also recognized the youthful actor in the Daile Theater. “An actor of energy and ecstasy” – that is what he said about Gunars Placena, who required to play hero roles but wanted a distinctive “storyline”. My internal strength and energy are like Lāčplēs’s, so the outer would not go jointly – that’s what he mentioned himself. Gunārs Placens became a singer of the small persons, as the theater critic Gunnars Treimanis termed him.

Gifted with a abundant creativity, a good perception of humor and sensitivity, with his very good mother nature and the diligence of a beekeeper, Gunārs Placen has masterfully established delicate figures that attract interest. Gunárs Placen by no means laughs, he seeks the human in the funny, which offers authenticity to the picture. Comedy should really be taken extra very seriously than tragedy, he pointed out.

Gunārs Placen is an actor in great demand by directors, the quantity of his roles exceeds a hundred. And some of them have turn into particular. Of class, the awesome and cheerful Šveiks in Eduard Smilģas’ 1961 generation, then the precise kind of the Soviet period, the confined “member of many councils” Félix Đīga in M. Birze’s enjoy It started with a black cat (1966), the father of our theater, a great actor the two on the stage and in life – Ādolfs Alunāns in the centenary production of the Latvian theater Allow it be! (1968), Dr. Watson In Sherlock Holmes (1979) and Don Quixote’s reliable companion Sancho Panza M. de Cervantes In Don Quixote (1984).

Gunars Placen’s abundant everyday living as an actor can also be witnessed in several films. He created his film debut in 1958 with the function of Augusta Caunas in the film The tale of a Latvian archer, then developing a sequence of fantastic roles in functions that belong to our cinema classics.

Gunārs Placēns’ operate has been appreciated equally in yearly Latvian theatrical performances (awards for Fēliks Įigas and Ādolfas Alunāns), and in Soviet-period honorary titles: Deserving Phase Artist (1971), People’s Stage Artist (1977). In 2011 he was awarded the Buy of the A few Stars.

The Daile Theater welcomes our celebrant, wishing him superior overall health and an unshakably youthful spirit.

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