FireSin (Latvian: UgunsGrēks)The literal translation of the show name is "The Sin of Fire", which is the normal Latvian term for "Conflagration" is a Latvian daytime soap opera that was broadcast on TV3 Latvia from 2009 until 2017. It was one of the longest-running scripted television programs in Latvia, airing nearly every weekday from March 15, 2009. It last aired on 19 May 2017. UgunsGrēks is the sequel to the LTV1 show The Cost of Frenzy (Latvian: Neprāta cena). After a 5-year hiatus, the show got unexpectedly renewed for another season. It was confirmed by an articlehttps://izklaide.tv3.lv/seriali/ugunsgreks/legenda-atgriezas-sakusies-seriala-ugunsgreks-turpinajuma-filmesana/ on April 11, 2022. The show has been available to stream on the platform Go3 since October 10, 2022, and was aired on February 13, 2023, on TV3, but the project was short-lived because the director Inta Gorodecka died on May 5, 2023, at age 65.
The show was created by Inta Gorodecka and Baiba Saleniece. The show's storylines were written by Inta Bernova and Gunta Kalniņa. The program featured an ensemble cast, headed by its longest-serving actors Ģirts Ķesteris as Leons Timmermanis, Jakovs Rafalsons as Vadims Felzenbahers, Zane Daudziņa as Helene Felzenbahere, Ilze Vazdika as Milda Upīte, Egīls Melnbārdis as Gunārs Liepiņš, Uldis Dumpis as Aivars Pētersons and Regīna Devīte as Zenta Upīte. In 2014, the show was the most-watched soap opera in Latvia, with an audience of an estimated 1 762 000 viewers. The series ended in May 2017 and was replaced by Svešā seja as a new day time soap opera, which was produced by the same creative team.
Premise Set in a seaside town, the series follows the daily lives of a luxurious hotel's (after Season 9, two hotels) staff and guests.
Seasons Season Episodes Originally aired Viewers (average) First aired Last aired 1 55 March 15, 2009 June 16, 2009 210 800 2 83 August 24, 2009 January 13, 2010 213 700 3 72 February 8, 2010 June 10, 2010 245 300 4 73 August 22, 2010 December 23, 2010 226 700 5 93 February 13, 2011 June 22, 2011 236 200 6 82 August 21, 2011 December 23, 2011 215 600 7 71 February 13, 2012 June 14, 2012 221 500 8 60 September 10, 2012 December 20, 2012 213 800 9 68 February 18, 2013 June 20, 2013 194 700 10 60 September 9, 2013 December 19, 2013 185 500 11 69 January 20, 2014 May 29, 2014 164 900 12 68 September 15, 2014 December 19, 2014 184 20013 80 January 19, 2015 June 8, 2015 190 0001460 September 7, 2015 December 17, 2015190 0321564 February 1, 2016 May 19, 2016 193 3931670 September 19, 2016 December 30, 2016154 500 17 76 January 30, 2017 May 19, 2017 183 200
History The storyline began in 2006 with a series called The Cost of Frenzy (Latvian: Neprāta cena). In March 2009 only ten days before the expected series premiere, TV3 Latvia came out with a disclaimer that The Cost of Frenzy would no longer be broadcast on the LTV1 network and would now be shown on TV3 Latvia with its new name UgunsGrēks. The new series brought new characters and multiple storylines over the years.
UgunsGrēks ended on May 19, 2017. After 17 seasons, the show's running channel decided to cancel the show. UgunsGrēks final episode was an hour long and TV3 Latvia showed a special live broadcast with the casts after party with actors from all the seasons. The creative team began to work on a new daily soap opera called Svešā seja, which premiered on September 18, 2017, in the same time slot that UgunsGrēks had aired. Svešā seja did not receive the same success that UgunsGrēks had, and was cancelled less than a year later on May 17, 2018, only ever airing 2 seasons.
Storyline
When UgunsGrēks premiered in 2009, the TV series revolved around the tragedies and triumphs of the Pētersons family, their friends and enemies in little city near the sea where the Pētersons family-owned a hotel. Storylines in the show followed the lives of residents of the Peterson hotel with the usual threads of love, marriage, divorce, family life, and the intrigue of the resort's ownership.
Over time, new families with their own hotels were brought to the show to interact with the Peterson family and serve as competitors for more dramatic storylines. One of the longest-running storylines involved a doctor named Leon, his love life and happiness. From the beginning until the 9th season of the series Leon was the main leading male character in Ugunsgrēks. This plot-line was made even more complex when the love of his life Marta Peterson played by Dita Lūriņa was killed in the bomb explosion. After this accident, Leon was left blind and alone. The 9th Season he finally found his true love and married his love interest for 4 seasons – Elizabete Ziemele played by Maija Doveika. After this, Leon went to Germany and his storyline ended.
With Leon's storyline ending, the viewers were reintroduced with Leons daughter Ieva Timmermane now played by Inga Tropa. Ieva became even more involved in the storyline as the series showed the audience Āboltiņi family who had built a new hotel Mare SPA near the Peterson resort. A love triangle between Ieva, a son from the Āboliņi family and Viesturs, Aivars friend and his firm bought the hotel after Dana stole it from Ieva, in order to save the son she had to choose between. Their love triangle lasted for 3 seasons. The story-line ended in the 14th season when Aivars offered Ieva to go back to England and she did, so in result, she chose none of them.
Cast When UgunsGrēks debuted, the cast consisted of six main characters (Leons Timmermanis, Marta Pētersone, Aivars Pētersons, Oto Pētersons, Elza Timmermane, Rihards Baumanis). As the show continued, the cast increased to 12 actors, and more over the next years. Throughout the show's run, there were over 200 actors that had a role in the TV series. Ģirts Ķesteris is seen in most of the episodes, because he has been in the show from the beginning.
Original cast member Mārtiņs Freimanis, who played Oto Pētersons, remained on contract with Ugunsgrēks until his sudden death on 27 January 2011. In the series, Martiņš Freimanis' character Oto moved to England and was never heard from again.
Cast member Ģirts Ķesteris holds the record for appearing in the most episodes since the beginning of the series. The actor played two roles: Leons Timmernanis, the hotel doctor, and the role of his long lost twin brother Fēlikss Seņkovs from Russia.
In the final years of UgunsGrēks the casting director hired many new cast members to appeal to their younger viewers. The new cast members were Vanda Saulīte (Dārta Daneviča), Signe Kļaviņa (Anta Aizupe), Sandija (Marija Linarte) Olafs Birznieks, (Gints Andžāns).
+ The cast of UgunsGrēksCharacterActorAivars PētersonsUldis Dumpis Aldis Putniņš Juris LisnersAleksis Grīnbergs Ainārs AnčevskisAlise SokolovaJana LisovaAnna Ilona BalodeAnnija LazdiņaAnce MuižnieceAntons DambītisRūdolfs PlēpisAnna JagudinaPolina OrlovaAugusts AndersonsPāvils AndressBeatrise HartmaneGunta VirkavaCēzars AndersonsNormunds BērzsČeslavs KomarovskisUldis AnžeDana ĀboliņaLīga ZeļģeDanielsMārtiņš MeiersDāvids OzolsMadars ZvagulisDeniss Tarasovs Ģirts LiuziniksDins Jēkabs ReinisDonāts JagudinsAldis SiliņšEdgars PētersonsMārtiņš FreimanisEdijs ĀboliņšArtūrs DīcisElizabete Timmermane (ex. Ziemele, Tarasova, Andersone)Maija DoveikaElza BaumaneIlze Ķuzule-SkrastiņaElīnaLaura AtelsoneErnests JansonsUldis NorenbergsEva Grīnberga (Ieva PļavnieceEvelīnaDana LāceFeldmanisJuris KalniņšFēlikss SeņkovsĢirts ĶesterisGatis ĀboliņšMārtiņš BrūverisGeorgs Lapsa Arnolds OsisGunaAnete KrasovskaGunārs LiepiņšEgils MelbārdisHelēna Jagudina (ex. Felzenbahere)Zane DaudziņaIeva Timmermane Gabriela Utāne, Inga TropaIndulis Strautiņš Jānis JarānsIngeborga Bergmane Zanda ŠtrausaIntarsEmīls KivlenieksIvo Balodis Ivars PugaJanaSarmīte RubuleJānis BērziņšMadars ZvagulisJānis GrīnbergsMārtiņš LiepaJānis ZiemelisVoldemārs ŠoriņšJānis Ziemelis Jr.Ralfs DragonsJevgēnija SeņkovaJekaterina FrolovaJezups MartinovsKristaps RasimsJuris StrazdiņšVilnis BriedisKarīna GrāvīteZane BurnickaKasparsĀris MatesovičsKatrīnaHelēna VasiļevskaKitija KārkliņaAnna ŠteinaKrissIvars LūsisKrista ZariņaMarija LinarteKristapsIvo MartinsonsLaimonis BlumbergsPēteris LiepiņšLeons Timmermanis Ģirts ĶesterisLidija ĀboliņaOlga DreģeLīga EglīteKristīne NevarauskaLuīze ApineMadara Melne-TomsoneLūcija Andersone Rasma GarneMadaraZane MeldereMagda ZariņaDaiga Gaismiņa-ŠiliņaMaksisArturs KrūzkopsManfrēds ĶirsisEdgars PujātsMareksJānis ĀmanisMarkussRihards LepersMarta TimmermaneDita LūriņaMegijaKarina LučiņinaMiervaldisLeons KrivānsMilda UpīteIlze VazdikaMirdza Liepiņa Indra BurkovskaNikolajs GončarovsĢirts JakovļevsOksana GriščeņkoJeļena SigovaOlafs BirznieksGints AndžānsOto PētersonsMārtiņš FreimanisPēteris JagudinsAndris BērziņšRamona VintereIeva Aleksandrova - EkloneRasa Dimaitīte Liene GāliņaRasma BlumbergaIndra BriķeRihards BaumanisArtūrs SkrastiņšRita LiepiņaMarija BērziņaRozeBaiba NejaRūdolfsValdis LūriņšSabīne ZivtiņaMāra MennikaSandijaMarija LinarteSanta ZiemeleJūlija ĻahaSarmīteJana HerbstaSerafima SeņkovaVeronika PlotņikovaSibilla GončarovaLāsma KugrēnaSigne KļaviņaAnta AizupeSilvija FelzenbahereIlze PukinskaSintija Saulīte Evija SkulteSofija HartmaneElīna DzelmeSolveigaAnita KvālaSvjatoslavs ZaicevsUldis SiliņšDakteris SūnaJuris AbramenkoTerēza RakēvičaMarta GraseTeodors GrīnbergsArno UpenieksVadims FelzenbahersJakovs RafalsonsVanda SaulīteDārta DanevičaViktorijaInga Misāne-GrasbergaViktorsPāvels GriškovsVisvaldisDainis OzoliņšZenta UpīteRegīna DevīteZigmārs BergmanisAigars Vilims
Executive producing and head writing team
The co-creator and original executive producer- Baiba Saleniece Director- Inta Gorodecka The first long-term head writer- Gunta Kalniņa, Inta Bernova and Vilnis Bīriņš
Domestic broadcast According to MTG TV LATVIA, UgunsGrēks was the most widely distributed soap opera and TV show in Latvia with episodes not just broadcast via TV3 Latvia, but also via Kanals2 and as of June 2012, episodes were offered via TV3play.
Related shows
The Cost of Frenzy This series aired four days of the week and consisted of 5 main characters (Aurēlija Anužīte as Anna Pētersone, Juris Žagars as Roberts, Ģirts Ķesteris as Leons Timmermanis, Kristīne Nevarauska as Līga, Jakovs Rafalsons as Vadims Felzenbahers).
Zenta's holidays This mini-series sitcom was shown on TV3 from August to October 2013. The series follows a character from UgunsGrēks, the hotel's maid Zenta Upīte, on her holidays. The cast consisted of Indra Burkovska (Dainuvīte), Baiba Neja (Dace), Ivars Kļavinskis (Zigis), Andris Bērziņš (Gastons) and Sergejs Čerņikovs (policeman).
Christmas special At Christmas 2015, the cast of UgunsGrēks surprised their fans by releasing a Christmas special event. This special featured all of the major characters from the 14th season - Aivars, Milda, Lidija, Krista, Dāvids, Jezups, Magda, Intars, Sandija, Gunārs, Helēna, Fēlikss, Jevgēņija, Dana and Gatis. All the characters participated in Christmas activities – baking gingerbread, decorating a Christmas tree and performing. The special aired (repeatedly in 2016) at 8.00 pm on TV3 Latvia.
Opening title sequences and theme song