Rolands Kalnins(1922-2022)
- Director
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
He was born in civil servants family. As child went to Riga where
1937-1940 attended 1st gymnasium. In 1947 started work in Rigas
Kinostudija as director's assistant working with directors Yuli
Raizman', Pavel Armand' and
Leonids Leimanis.First work as director
dates from 1959. In Soviet regime movies
'piedod Dzimtene' and
'Cetri balti krekli' where severely
censured but Piejuras klimats forbidden and only 40 minutes of this
film survived.