Ada Neretniece

Amida "Ada" Neretniece (1924-2008) was a Soviet Latvian film director. Life Neretniece's father was a rifleman and Soviet commissioner and her mother was an accountant. She worked with Sergei Eisenstein. When she graduated from Leningrad Secondary School No. 24 the school was evacuated and was in Kirov. In 1949 she completed her course at the All-State Institute of Cinematography. She worked at the Riga Film Studio until 1954. Her first 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 1966 she was directing spy films with a heavy bias towards a Soviet version of the Second World War.