Edvīns Šnore, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Edvīns Šnore

Latvian film director

Date of Birth: 21-Mar-1974

Place of Birth: Saulkrasti, Saulkrasti Municipality, Latvia

Profession: screenwriter, politician, historian, film director

Nationality: Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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Edvins Šnore (born 21 March 1974, in Saulkrasti) is a Latvian film director and politician.
He was elected to a four-year term in the Latvian Saeima in 2014 and 2018.Šnore's family comes from Kuldiga.
He went to high school in Riga.
During the Revolutions of 1989 he sympathized with the Popular Front of Latvia.
He first studied political science in Norway, and then earned his master's degree at the University of Latvia.
In 2013 he completed his Doctoral thesis on the Western European view of Holodomor.Šnore has become known for his 2008 documentary The Soviet Story.
For this film, he was awarded with the Latvian Order of the Three Stars in 2008, and the Estonian Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana in 2009.
In 2016 Šnore released another documentary called The Unknown War: Baltic Resistance on the guerrilla war in the Baltic states.