Rolands Kalniņš
- Birth Date:
- 09.05.1922
- Death date:
- 17.05.2022
- Extra names:
- Categories:
- Film director, KGB files of Latvia SSR, Order of the Three Stars (Latvia), Producer
- Nationality:
- latvian
- Cemetery:
- Rīgas 2. Meža kapi (Braslas kapi)
Rolands Kalniņš (7 May 1922 – 17 May 2022) was a Latvian film director.
Biography
Rolands Kalniņš was born on 7 May 1922 Vecslabada, Istra parish, Latvia to a post worker family. From 1937 to 1940, he studied at the Riga State Gymnasium No.1. Following World War II, he started working as a director at the Riga Film Studio, instantly from an assistant director to a second director. His films Stone and Rubble and Breathe Deeply were pulled from cinemas as they were declared undesirable.
He won Best Screenplay Award at the Chisinau Film Festival (1967) for his film Stone and Rubble. In 1980, his film Saruna ar karalieni received the Latvian National Film Festival Prize for best documentary, but in 2005 he received Award for Life Contribution. He turned 100 on 7 May 2022, and died on 17 May.
Source: wikipedia.org
| Title | From | To | Images | Languages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Rīgas Kinostudija | lv |
| Relation name | Relation type | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jūlijs Kalniņš | Father | ||
| 2 | Anna Kalniņa | Mother | ||
| 3 | Marija Adamova | Wife | ||
| 4 | Sofija Juzefa Kudeiko | Sister in-law | ||
| 5 |  | Olga Adamova | Sister in-law | |
| 6 |  | Eduards Pāvuls | Coworker | |
| 7 |  | Ārijs Geikins | Coworker | |
| 8 |  | Gunārs Cilinskis | Coworker | |
| 9 |  | Aivars Siliņš | Coworker | |
| 10 |  | Uldis Pūcītis | Coworker | |
| 11 | Renāte Gintere | Coworker | ||
| 12 |  | Regīna Razuma | Coworker | |
| 13 |  | Āris Liepiņš | Coworker | |
| 14 |  | Voldemārs Blumbergs | Coworker | |
| 15 |  | Dzintars Pēteris Veits | Coworker | |
| 16 |  | Pavelas Armandas | Coworker | |
| 17 |  | Leonīds Leimanis | Coworker | |
| 18 |  | Viktors Lorencs | Coworker | |
| 19 |  | Gvido Skulte | Idea mate | |
| 20 |  | Viktors Avotiņš | Idea mate | |
| 21 |  | Michelangelo Antonioni | Authority |