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Filmmaker · Latvia

Juris Podnieks

Died in 1992

Juris Podnieks was born in Riga on 5 December 1950. An assistant cameraman from 1967, he graduated from the Moscow film institute, joined the Riga studio and moved into directing in 1979. With British television, he then made a five-part series on the Soviet Union in its last years, crowned with the Prix Italia. On the night of 20 January 1991, in Riga, Soviet troops killed two men of his crew, Andris Slapiņš and Gvido Zvaigzne. He drowned on 23 June 1992, while diving in a lake in Courland.

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