Gunārs Piesis
Directing
June 19, 1931
Died at age 64
February 9, 1996
Date of Death
Latvia
Biography
Gunārs Piesis represents the first generation of professionally schooled Latvian directors. Piesis was the first one to dare to adapt Rainis for the screen. Gunārs Piesis was also the first to turn to Latvian fairy-tales