Film and theater scientist, translator Silvija Līce has gone to eternity / Article / LSM.lv

Dr.artis Silvija Līce (19.06.1940.-29.08.2020), a film and theater scientist, author of documentary screenplays and books, translator and language teacher, has gone to the Latvian Cinematographers’ Union.

Silvija Līce is one of the first Latvian film scientists with a degree from the Institute of Language and Literature of the Latvian Academy of Sciences (LAS) and a postgraduate degree from the USSR Institute of Art Research in Moscow. She has also been a researcher at the LAS Institute for a long time.

The creative biography includes works – the monograph “Classics of Latvian Literature in Cinema” (1977), co-author – “Soviet Latvian Cinema” (1989) and others. In her works, Silvija Līce has analyzed and evaluated the film editing and visual quality in depth. She has created a book about cinematographer Māris Rudzīte (1983), a collection of portraits of actors in cinematography “They formed the visual image of Latvian art films” (1995).

The collection “About myself, about my life, about my work in cinema” (1991) contains portraits of Līce about Latvian directors, portrait books about cinema and theater actors and opera singers – “Valdemārs Zandbergs” (1987), “The story of a happy person” (about Peter Gravel, 1990), “Documentary Fantasy” (about Alexander Polakov, 1992), “Lydia Freimane: I Tell My Children” (1992 and 2001), “Without the White House” (1995), “Inese Galante” (1999).

As a translator, Silvija Līce has regularly translated English and French films for Latvian Television, including such literary texts as Tennessee Williams’ “Orpheus Goes to Hell”, Tolstoy-Rosé’s “Anna Karenina”, Flaubert’s “Mrs. Bovari”, Grio-René’s “Life is novel “, a series of Fitzgerald’s” It’s a Gentle Night “and other classic masterpieces.

“Silvija Līci is characterized by knowledge, competence and the delicacy of a high-culture person on every subject, every person, every task that results in quality,” emphasized the Latvian Cinematographers’ Union.

Farewell from Silvija Bay will take place on Friday, September 4, at 15.00 in the Great Hall of Riga Crematorium.

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