Rainis

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Status

Released

Production

Rīgas kinostudija

Aired

1949-01-26

Rainis

A biopic of Rainis (born as Jānis Pliekšāns), a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician, whose works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism.