Varis Brasla

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| birth_name = Varis Brasla

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1939|4|25}}

| birth_place = Riga, Latvia

| yearsactive = 1962 –

| occupation = Film director

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Varis Brasla (born 25 April 1939) is a Latvian film director.

Since 1965 he worked in Riga Film Studio. Several of his films, including Emil's Mischiefs and Waterbomb for the Fat Tomcat were awarded with the Latvian National Film Prize award as the best film of the year.{{cite web |title=LIELĀ KRISTAPA balvas laureāti 1977-2007 |url=http://lielais-kristaps.filmas.lv/read_article/11?y=2007 |publisher=lielais-kristaps.filmas.lv |access-date=2007-10-06}}

He was awarded the Order of Three Stars in 2009.{{cite web|title=Par Triju Zvaigžņu ordeņa piešķiršaņu un apbalvošanu ar goda zīmi|url=https://www.vestnesis.lv/ta/id/199489|website=Latvijas Vēstnesis|access-date=20 December 2017}}

Selected filmography

=Director filmography=

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Year ! Film ! Notes
1976 \| The Lake Sonata \|
1978 \| Pavasara ceļazīmes \|
1980 \| Novēli man lidojumam nelabvēlīgu laiku \| Latvian National Film Prize in 1980
1982 \| Tereona galva \|
1983 \| Parāds mīlestībā \|
1985 \| Emil's Mischiefs \| Latvian National Film Prize in 1985
1987 \| Aija \|
1988 \| Par mīlestību pašreiz nerunāsim \| Latvian National Film Prize in 1988
1991 \| The Times of the Land-Surveyors \|
rowspan=2\| 1996 \| Ziemassvētku jampadracis \|
Kā tev klājas, Eidi? \| also screenwriter
2004 \| Waterbomb for the Fat Tomcat \| Latvian National Film Prize in 2005
2017 \| Grandpa More Dangerous Than Computer \|

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Year

! Film

! Notes

1976

| The Lake Sonata

1978

| Pavasara ceļazīmes

1980

| Novēli man lidojumam nelabvēlīgu laiku

| Latvian National Film Prize in 1980

1982