Vijaya (2004)

This is a story about a woman who seemingly has always been victorious against all the difficulties; but, when you look closer, there is sadness lingering in her heart and tears in her eyes.

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 1H 12M

Director : Ināra Kolmane

Synopsis

Vija Vetra is the famous Latvian dancer and choreographer. She was admired for her dancing by Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. She was loved by the world famous American poet Robert Lowell. She was the first to introduce sacred dance into church services in many different countries around the world. She has learned to cross freely the cultural boundaries, feeling equally at home both in Eastern and Western dance traditions. Born in Latvia, she has spent her life in different parts of the world and the camera traces her in the film (from India in 70ies where she had been renowned as "Vijaya", to New York, Greece, and Latvia today). The film is as colorful as her life: loud and happy like the feelings aroused by her splendid performance, deep and unknowable like her inner world, and sad, quiet and calm like loneliness itself?

Actors

Vija Vetra
Vija Vetra
Self

Crews

Ināra Kolmane
Ināra Kolmane
Director
Ināra Kolmane
Ināra Kolmane
Writer
Ināra Kolmane
Ināra Kolmane
Producer
Aivars Kalniņš
Aivars Kalniņš
Director of Photography
Uldis Millers
Uldis Millers
Director of Photography
Ainārs Paukšēns
Ainārs Paukšēns
Music
Jānis Juhņevičs
Jānis Juhņevičs
Sound Director
Jānis Juhņevičs
Jānis Juhņevičs
Editor
Jānis Juhņevičs
Jānis Juhņevičs
Producer
Nora Ikstena
Nora Ikstena
Idea

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