An image from In the Shadow of Death, one of the productions that also features Gunārs Piesis.
Gunārs Piesis
June 19, 1931 — Latvia
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
