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2 unusual facts about Paul Butkevich


Paul Butkevich

Paul Butkevich has taken part in approximately 150 movies and plays also outside the borderlines of Latvia, in his most active years it was common to travel twice a week or more to Dushanbe-Kaliningrad-Moskow-Sverdlovsk-Simferopol, he has even been awarded as an artist by Russian Federation.

Surprisingly enough, even though the film itself was not shown to public till the end of 80s, its songs, written by the acclaimed Latvian composer Imants Kalniņš, became very popular among Latvian society, and later were performed by Latvian bands ‘Menuets’ and ‘Turaidas roze’.



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