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Viya Fricevna Artmane
Вия Артмане
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21 August 1929 - 11 October 2008
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Soviet and Latvian actress, People's Artist of the USSR Via Frantsevna Artmane was born on July 21, 1929 in Latvia in the family of a Polish and a Baltic German.
The fate of the future artist was very difficult. She was raised by her mother, as her father died four months before her birth. With the stepfather, too, relations did not work out, and the mother, forced to work for wealthy peasants, left the girl to herself. Since childhood, Via dreamed of becoming a lawyer to punish evil and unjust
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Soviet and Latvian actress, People's Artist of the USSR Via Frantsevna Artmane was born on July 21, 1929 in Latvia in the family of a Polish and a Baltic German.
The fate of the future artist was very difficult. She was raised by her mother, as her father died four months before her birth. With the stepfather, too, relations did not work out, and the mother, forced to work for wealthy peasants, left the girl to herself. Since childhood, Via dreamed of becoming a lawyer to punish evil and unjust people. But then I was fascinated by theater and art – there was most of everything beautiful, fair, magical. After school, she entered the Art Academic Theater named after J. Rainis in the drama studio, and in 1949 she became an actress of the theater named after J. Rainis, where she established herself as a performer of classical roles.
In the movie Artman debuted in 1956 in the film
After the storm But all-Union fame she brought the role of Sonya in the film “Native blood”. Here the actress managed to sincerely, restrained and succinctly show the mood of a simple Russian woman, for which she fell in love with the audience. There were no less successful films with the participation of the actress:
"Nobody wanted to die." .
Edgar and Christina , a love television novel "Theater".
In his personal life, however, Vie Artmane was not as lucky as in the movies. She was married to a theater actor, but her husband was older and very jealous, besides he was not sinless. From this marriage they had two children.
Via Artmane survived the collapse of the USSR and the rupture of relations between Latvia and Russia. In the 90s, she began targeted persecution for nationalist reasons because of her role in the film The Retinue Man (1987). Then the authorities seized the house in which the actress lived for about forty years. After these events, she suffered more than one stroke and heart attack. Later she was given an apartment in the center of Tallinn.
The last work of the actress was in the film by Russian director V.Khotinenko “Golden Age”.
Via Artame died on October 11, 2008.