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'Victorious Return' (, ) is a 1947 Soviet Latvian film directed by Aleksander Ivanov and . The film was directed by the Riga Film Studio.

The television broadcast of the film on Latvian TV in 1954 was the full first television broadcast in Latvian history.

Plot



The film is based on the play 'Victory' by Vilis Lcis. During World War II, Soviet Army lieutenant Augusts Grieze is captured as a result of treachery during a retreat. The Germans are struggling to lure him into their ranks, but he refuses, so the Germans on the radio spread messages on behalf of Augusts asking the Latvians to lay down their arms. Grieze manages to escape and becomes a lone wolf partisan. When the Soviets retake Riga, he is determined to clear his name and find the traitor - Paulis Nagla.

Starring



* Artrs Dimiters as Augusts Grieze

* Ludmila plberga as Augusts's mother

* Velta Lne as Biruta Ae

* Leonds Leimanis as Opmanis

* Artrs Filipsons as Vershinin

* Visvaldis Silenieks as Draudi

* Pavel Volkov as Melnikov

* Edgars Zle as Pauls Nagla

* Herberts Zommers as Obersturmbannfuhrer Budbergs (credited as Herbert Zommer)

* Jnis Osis as Headman (Municipal elder)

* Arnolds Milbrets as Pteris

* Luijs mits as Teacher Vtols

* Hermanis Vazdiks as rmanis

References




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