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name: "Viktors Lorencs"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/viktors-lorencs"
fi1m_id: "viktors-lorencs"
imdb_id: "nm0520660"
tmdb_id: 1148740
wikidata_id: "Q857381"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 July 1927"
died: "26 January 1992"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:20:19.374248+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Viktors Lorencs

## Identity

Viktors Lorencs

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/viktors-lorencs
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** viktors-lorencs
- **IMDb ID:** nm0520660
- **TMDB ID:** 1148740
- **Wikidata ID:** Q857381
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q857381, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0520660/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1148740

Actor. Born 29 July 1927 in Riga, Latvia. Died 26 January 1992.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 July 1927, Riga, Latvia
- **Died:** 26 January 1992
- **Also known as:** Viktor Lorents, Виктор Лоренц, Лоренц Виктор Клавс
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q857381, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0520660/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1148740

## Biography

Viktors Lorencs (also credited as Viktor Lorents) was a Latvian actor and screenwriter. Born in Riga on 30 July 1927, he studied at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow from 1954 to 1961, becoming Latvia’s first professional film screenwriter.

He wrote screenplays for films including *Hullumeelsus* (1969) and *Ceplis* (1972), and appeared as an actor in *Come and See* (1985) as a Sturmbannführer and in *Fate of a Man* (1959) as a one-eyed German officer (uncredited). He also played the lead role of Eduard Sõrmus in *Punane viiul* (1975). Lorencs was named Honoured Artist of the Latvian SSR in 1987. He died in Riga on 26 January 1992.

*Sources: imdb.com, ru.wikipedia.org, lv.wikipedia.org, rbth.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Come and See* (1985), Fi1m 92, as Sturmbannführer — [page](https://film.one/film/come-and-see.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Zitar Family* (1990), Writer
- *Zītaru dzimta* (1990), series, Writer
- *If We Live Through All This* (1987), Screenplay
- *Come and See* (1985), as Sturmbannführer — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/come-and-see.md)
- *A Shot In The Forest* (1984), Writer
- *Long Road in the Dunes* (1982), series, Script Editor
- *The Right to Shot* (1981), as Intelligence representative
- *Conversation with a Queen* (1980), Writer
- *Rally* (1978), as Pokupatel
- *Death Under Sail* (1977), series, Screenplay
- *This Dangerous Balcony Door* (1976), as Viktors
- *Death Under Sail* (1976), Writer
- *The Red Violin* (1975), as Eduard Sõrmus
- *Four Springs* (1975), Writer
- *Egle rudzu laukā* (1972), Writer
- *Ceplis* (1972), Writer
- *Madness* (1969), Screenplay
- *Rock and Splinters* (1967), Writer
- *My Riga* (1960), Writer
- *Fate of a Man* (1959), as One-eyed German Officer (uncredited) · Script Consultant

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