Long Road in the Dunes

Long Road in the Dunes
Long Road in the Dunes
Directed by	Aloizs Brenčs
Written by	Dmitry Vasiliu; Oleg Rudnev
Produced by	Lilita Liepiņa
Starring	Lilita Ozoliņa; Juozas Kiselius; Romualdas Ramanauskas;
Cinematography	Jānis Mūrnieks
Edited by	Tamāra Musņitska
Music by	Raimonds Pauls
Production; company	Riga Film Studio
Release date	1980
Running time	439 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Latvian; Russian

Long Road in the Dunes (Latvian: Ilgais ceļš kāpās, Russian: Долгая дорога в дюнах, romanized: Dolgaya doroga v dyunakh) is a 1981 Soviet Latvian seven-part TV melodrama, directed by Aloizs Brenčs. The original series was shot in Latvian by the Riga Film Studio, and an additional version was released with Russian voiceovers.^[2]

Plot

The action takes place in Latvia and covers the period from 1939 to the present day. The events that took place in the country had different influences on the fate of the heroes. But all of them were led through life by love scattered and collected, forced to suffer cruelly and made the happiest in the world. The love story of Artūrs Banga, the son of a fisherman, and Marta Ozola, who carried their feelings through all the difficulties and sorrows of the military and post-WWII years.

Cast

Lilita Ozoliņa as Marta Ozola (Russian voiceover by Valentina Talyzina)^[3]
Juozas Kiselius as Artūrs Banga (Latvian voiceover by Rolands Zagorskis, Russian voiceover by Aleksei Pankin)
Romualdas Ramanauskas as Rihards Lozbergs (Latvian voiceover by Ģirts Jakovļevs, Russian voiceover by Valery Ryzhakov)
Eduards Pāvuls as Jēkabs Ozols, Marta's father (Russian voiceover by Vladimir Safronov)
Ārijs Geikins as Innkeeper Āboltiņš
Aare Laanemets as Laimonis Kalniņš
Dzidra Ritenberga as Erna
Harijs Liepiņš as Lawyer Osvalds Kreizis
Evgeny Zharikov as Otto Grīnbergs / Alexander Efimov
Merle Talvik as Ilga
Ivan Ryzhov as Mityay Akimych
Lyubov Sokolova
as Anisya, Mityay's wife (Latvian voiceover by Velta Krūze)
Pauls Butkēvičs as Heinrihs Strautnieks (Russian voiceover by Boris Bystrov
)

Velta Līne as Maiga
Arnis Līcītis as Dr. Lorans (uncredited)

Filming

Initially, the role of Marta was to be given to actress Vija Artmane.^[4]
Episodes 6 and 7 were filmed in the village of Yalguba,
deportee village in Siberia.^[5]^[6]