A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
December 21, 1976
Original Title:
Liekam būt
Alternate Titles:
Liekam būt
Redundant
Genres:
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Production Companies:
Rīgas kinostudija
Production Countries:
Soviet Union
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 91
Voldis Viters is released after seven years in prison. He is 46 years old and has no family or job. Some of his old friends have abandoned the life of crime, and policeman Leo Aleksandrs, as well as the beautiful taxi driver Irēna, try to persuade Voldis to forget the past and move on. But when the crime boss Teksis proposes a plan to rob a jewelry store, Voldis agrees, thinking this will be his last crime before starting a new life. Marking the pinnacle of its director's filmography, To Be Unwanted is a psychological drama that centers not on a single crime or its investigation but on the emotional collapse of the criminal as he realizes that his amoral lifestyle has rendered him redundant within society.
Administration:
Biruta Mierleja
Aldis Migla
Assistant Camera:
Valdis Abolins
Juris Baltabols
Guntis Spricis
Assistant Director:
Inara Esenberga
Raitis Gosins
Aria Hansen
Cirulis Janis
Edmunds Kasevskis
I. Zute
Assistant Editor:
Inese Brušteina
Guntra Ermane
Zinaida Frumina
Assistant Production Design:
Ārija Meidropa
Camera Operator:
Uģis Egle
Costume Design:
Natalija Saporina
Director:
Aloiz Brench
Director of Photography:
Rihards Pīks
Driver:
H. Berzins
Stanislavs Karaluns
Peteris Karlsons
Karlis Priekulis
Janis Zuks
Editor:
Tamara Musnickaya
Key Grip:
Uldis Millers
Eduards Salduksnis
Key Makeup Artist:
Janis Riba
Makeup Artist:
Larisa Lickova
Valentina Zorina
Music Director:
Nikolay Zolotonos
Original Music Composer:
Ivars Vigners
Production Design:
Gunārs Balodis
Production Manager:
Semjons Ludzišs
Props:
Elmars Matiss
A. Vasilevics
Pyrotechnician:
A. Iekums
Screenplay:
Andris Kolbergs
Script Editor:
Austra Zīle
Set Decoration:
Laimonis Biernis
Sound:
V. Cesovs
Gariks Geozaljans
Viktors Milnikovs
Special Effects:
Robinsone Faina
Melita Purvina
Still Photographer:
Ludmila Tjurina
Stunt Coordinator:
Uldis Veispals
Stunts:
Andris Kalmajs
V. Masarskis
J. Tauritis
Unit Manager:
Ruvims Amdurs
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.