- published: 06 Jul 2013
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Paul Butkevich(Latvian: Pauls Butkēvičs) actor born in 8 August 1940, Riga, Soviet Union(now Latvia). Best known for taking part in ideologically unfit movies Es visu atceros, Ričard (1966, also known as Akmens un šķembas) and Elpojiet dziļi! (1967, Also known as Četri balti krekli), also in movies Rallijs (1978), Nepabeigtās vakariņas (1979), Ilgais ceļš kāpās un Mirāža (1981), Aija (1987)
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.
A while back actor said that to complete his life's work he wants to write a play, play in it, write a book and record a music album, and that is it. And so he has.
First Paul decided to write a book. He was still living in Jūrmala, where his neighbor journalist Vija Apinīte was very exited about making a biographical book about Paul Butkevich, so after the actor had collected his materials and thoughts about his life and roles on paper, she systematized it all and in 2001 they published a 237 page thick book Kājām pa Ugunszemi(Rīga : Sol Vita). Presentation photos are here...
While teaching musical acting course in Baltic Russian Institute he got inspired and wrote a musical play Es visur aicināts un izraidīts based on 15th to 20th century Russian poetry. Sung in Russian on the stage of Daugavpils Theatre, premiered in 13 January 2005, has been showed in several schools, recreation centers and libraries, and there has been also road-shows in Russia