Oleg Rudnev

Oleg Rudnev (1935, Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2000, Moscow, Russian Federation) – co-author of the script  of one of the most popular films of the Riga Cinema Studio «The Long Journey in the Dunes», shot by director Alois Brench in 1980-81. This film, televised at the time of stagnation, sparked public interest by attempting for the first time to  highlight the fate of people at critical moments in the history of Latvia in the 20th century,  as well as to draw attention to the Soviet repressions.