Victorious Return' (, ) is a 1947 Soviet Latvian film directed by Aleksander Ivanov and . The film was directed by the Riga Film Studio. The television broadcast of the film on Latvian TV in 1954 was the full first television broadcast in Latvian history. Plot The film is based on the play Victory by Vilis Lācis. During World War II, Soviet Army lieutenant Augusts Grieze is captured as a result of treachery during a retreat. The Germans are struggling to lure him into their ranks, but he refuses, so the Germans on the radio spread messages on behalf of Augusts asking the Latvians to lay down their arms. Grieze manages to escape and becomes a lone wolf partisan. When the Soviets retake Riga, he is determined to clear his name and find the traitor - Paulis Nagla. Starring Artūrs Dimiters as Augusts Grieze Ludmila Špīlberga as Augusts's mother Velta Līne as Biruta Aže Leonīds Leimanis as Opmanis Artūrs Filipsons as Vershinin Visvaldis Silenieks as Draudiņš Pavel Volkov as Melnikov Edgars Zīle as Pauls Nagla Herberts Zommers as Obersturmbannfuhrer Budbergs (credited as Herbert Zommer) Jānis Osis as Headman (Municipal elder) Arnolds Milbrets as Pēteris Luijs Šmits as Teacher Vītols Hermanis Vazdiks as Ērmanis References External links Mājup ar uzvaru at Filmas.lv - the Latvian Film Database (in Latvian) 1947 films 1940s Russian-language films Soviet drama films 1947 drama films Soviet black-and-white films Riga Film Studio films Latvian-language films Latvian drama films