Ada Neretniece

Amida "Ada" Neretniece (1924-2008) was a Soviet Latvian film director.

Life Neretniece's father was a Latvian rifleman and Soviet commissar and her mother was an accountant. She worked with Sergei Eisenstein. She worked at the Riga Film Studio from 1949 (making documentary until 1954).

Her first feature film she directed was "Rita" in 1957. The film took the 1959 award for directing at the Baltic and Belarusian Film Festival in Vilnius and a prize at the All-Union Film Festival in Kiev.

In 2003 Kin Lats created a montage of her films with an interview to honour her work titled DOMINANTE. Kinorežisore Ada Neretniece. She directed the film is 1992 . It wasa Latvian film based on Honoré de Balzac's play "The Stepmother". The film was a co-production of the Latvian film studio AL KO and the Russian creative association Ekran.

Ada died in 2008 in Riga.

Films 1957 - " Rita " 1958 - "A stranger in the village " 1960 - " Your Happiness " 1961 - " cheat " 1963 - " He's alive " 1965 - " Hippocratic Oath " 1966 - " " Cyclone 'begins at night " 1968 - " Long Day Morning " 1970 - " Republic of Varnu Street " 1972 - " Captain Jack " 1974 - " First Summer " 1976 - " Death under sail " 1978 - " New Year's Eve " 1981 - " Inquiry Found " 1984 - "The Last Visit " 1985 - "The Last Indulgence " 1988 - " Divination on the Lamb" 1991 - "The Dog Who Can Sing " 1992 - "The Secrets of the De Granchani Family "