Victorious Return' (, russian: Возвращение с победой, Vozvrashchenye s pobedoy) is a 1947 Soviet Latvian film directed by

Aleksander Ivanov Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants li ...

and . The film was directed by the

Riga Film Studio Riga Film Studio ( lv, Rīgas kinostudija, russian: Рижская киностудия, Rizhskaya kinostudiya) is a Latvian film production company based in Riga and founded in 1940 on the basis of the earlier private film companies. In 1948, th ...

. 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 Lācis. During

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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

* Artūrs Dimiters as Augusts Grieze * Ludmila Špīlberga as Augusts's mother *

Velta Līne Velta Līne (28 August 1923 – 31 December 2012) was a Soviet and Latvian actress, who worked in the Latvian National Theatre since 1945. She was married to actor and film director Gunārs Cilinskis in 1957 until his death in 1992. They had a s ...

as Biruta Aže * Leonīds Leimanis as Opmanis * Artūrs Filipsons as Vershinin * Visvaldis Silenieks as Draudiņš *

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as Melnikov * Edgars Zīle as Pauls Nagla * Herberts Zommers as Obersturmbannfuhrer Budbergs (credited as Herbert Zommer) * Jānis Osis as Headman (Municipal elder) * Arnolds Milbrets as Pēteris * Luijs Šmits as Teacher Vītols * Hermanis Vazdiks as Ērmanis

References

External links

*
''Mājup ar uzvaru'' at Filmas.lv - the Latvian Film Database (in Latvian)
1947 films 1947 war films 1940s Soviet films 1940s Russian-language films Latvian-language films Soviet war films Russian war films Soviet black-and-white films Russian black-and-white films Soviet World War II films Russian World War II films Riga Film Studio films {{WWII-film-stub