Edvīns Šņore

Birthday:

03/21/1974

Place of birth:

Saulkrasti, Vidzeme, Latvia:

Biography:

Edvīns Šnore is a Latvian film director and politician. He was elected to a four-year term in the Latvian Saeima in 2014 and 2018. Šnore is 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 against the Russian occupiers in the Baltic states.