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Filmmaker · Latvia

Aleksandrs Leimanis

Died in 1990

Aleksandrs Leimanis was born in 1913 in Gavrilovo, in the Smolensk governorate. An actor and director, he made more than fifteen films during the Soviet period at the Riga film studio: musicals, crime films, adventures and psychological dramas. He also taught at the Latvian Conservatory, where Jānis Streičs graduated from his directing class in 1963. Husband of the actress Baiba Indriksone, he died in Riga on 17 June 1990.

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