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Donatas Banionis

Donatas Banionis

Donatas Banionis (28 April 1924 – 4 September 2014) was a Lithuanian actor. He is best known for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's Solaris as Kris Kelvin. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017)

Oscar winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto weaves man-made and natural sounds together in his works. His anti-nuclear activism grew after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, and his career only paused after a 2014 cancer diagnosis. ...

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The Silent Lithuanian Revolution (2013)

The revolution in Lithuania has already started, but no one knows who announced it and who is leading it. The action is not taking place somewhere far away, but here in Lithuania and now. The characters of the film themselves turn into creators and shape t ...

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Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky (2012)

Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to the years Tarkovsky spent in Italy, personal accounts of friends and professionals, the shooting locations of his films, to what degree his works reflects his ...

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Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda (2011)

A romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army ...

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Revisiting Solaris (2007)

The astronaut Chris Kelvin receives a visit from a woman who is a double of his dead wife. This story, told in Stanislaw Lem's eponymous novel, was once adapted into the film Solaris by the legendary Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky. According to Dei ...

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Anastasia (2006)

They only wanted to challenge the unjust government. But once they did...they had no way back. When Baltic states regain their independence from the Soviet Union, thousands of Russians living outside Russia find themselves cut off from their native land. S ...

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Meeting (2005)

Based on the play "Impossible Meeting" by P. Barz. ...

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Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun (2004)

The second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; "The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". The film depicts the life and reign of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich of Kiev, known in legends as Vladimir the Red Sun. The story begins in 972 AD, after the ...

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The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga (2004)

The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; "The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tells the story of pagan Rus' during the time of Prince Igor, his murder by the Drevlyans, Olga's revenge, Olga's repentance and adoption of Christianity. ...

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Only Time... (2002)

The last day of the year ends. At the Christmas market, where a lot of people were still bustling during the day, in the evening there were only three snow-covered graces, three beautiful women. They have nowhere to hurry, no one is waiting for them at hom ...

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The Courtyard (2000)

The first feature of Lithuanian Valdas Navasaitis is a drama which unravels the hopeless 1970s, when people were deprived of their roots and forced to sit and watch their lives slip from their fingers. In a decrepit house that once belonged to a bourgeois ...

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Adomas Mickevičius. 1798 - 1855. Realybės versijos (1998)

A documentary film about Adomas Mickevičius. ...

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Depression (1991)

A crime story which take action in Riga Sea Port. ...

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Yatra Witch (1991)

Soviet horror movie based on the play by the writer Vyacheslav Adamchik Raisa Gromyko. The film takes place in the XVI century. ...

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Seven Days After the Murder (1991)

A terrible tragedy occurs in the family of a famous general: one of his daughters is killed. The investigator leading the case understands that an outwardly prosperous and friendly family only seems to be pretending to be happy. ...

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Bloodsuckers (1991)

When a young man wants to marry a poor girl, her cousin envies her very much. She even makes everybody believe that the main character was in love with her. He escapes from many difficulties in order to find his beloved who also became trapped in a luxurio ...

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Human Target (1990)

A detective goes undercover in a small Russian town. ...

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Entrance to Labyrinth (1990)

The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hallucinations) and in the days of Perestroika. ...

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The Thirteenth Apostle (1988)

Soviet Armenian adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" ...

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Enclosure (1988)

In one of the developing countries, local and Soviet geologists discovered a tantalum ore deposit. Having learned about this, the CIA now intends to draw the country into the American sphere of influence: to incite discontent among religious communities, o ...

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Cry of a Dolphin (1987)

The crew of the new American strategic missile submarine "Archelon" is struck by an unknown virus. The command must decide on removing the submarine from combat duty and sending the crew to quarantine. ...

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Snake Catcher (1986)

The former director of a large deli Pavel Shorokhov, having returned from prison and not received the expected reception from his wife, who forbade him to see his son, temporarily settles with Kotov, the owner of the lists of participants in the unaccounte ...

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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas. ...

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The Limit of Truth (1986)

Tele play about scientists. ...

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I'm Sorry (1982)

Pranas, now a celebrity singer, returns to his homeland from a big city. He is greeted at the airport and driven to his native village by a childhood friend Jonas, who works there as a doctor. ...

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Honeymoon in America (1982)

For thirty years after the wedding, the war separated Jurgis and Morata. Now he is a famous surgeon, he works in the USA under the name of George Sticker and does not know that his daughter has grown up. But Morata finds him anyway. A belated honeymoon doe ...

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A Child's World (1982)

A middle-aged jeweler is falling in love with a glorious woman. She, raising a son alone, is in no hurry to reciprocate a fan. ...

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Nicolo Paganini (1982)

Biopic about Niccolo Paganini. He receives training from his father in early childhood. The best teachers of Parma are unable to give him more, so Paganini turns to a daily 15 hours of rigorous self-training. He makes sensational concert tours in Vienna, P ...

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Fact (1981)

Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a f ...

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Andrius (1980)

A young boy Andrius learns a magic words which open a door to another world. ...

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Territory (1979)

Discovery of gold by a group of tough people in the far Northeast of Russia. ...

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Unseeded Rye Blossom (1979)

A man who abandoned his wife and son 20 years ago is forced to deal with the consequences. ...

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The Centaurs (1979)

The story takes place in an unnamed Latin Country. ...

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The Adventures of Prince Florisel (1979)

A mostly comical tale of all-powerful and wealthy Bavarian prince adventures that started when prince was seeking to deal with the boredom. Joining the Club of Suicide society, he uncovered the mastermind criminal behind it, and vowed to get rid of him by ...

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Identification Marks None (1979)

Drama about Feliks Dzerzhinsky's life ...

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Where have you been, Odysseus? (1978)

A story of a Soviet spy working in France during WWII. ...

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Armed and Very Dangerous (1978)

America's Wild West of the last third of the 19th century. Thousands of people rushed here in pursuit of enrichment. Among them was Gabriel Conroy, a man absolutely helpless in the world of business. When fountains of oil started gushing on his plot of lan ...

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Cash Collector's Bag (1977)

Two cash collectors are found burned with their car but the bag is missing. Two detectives - Aleksandr Sanin and Aleksey Tulyakov are investigating the crime. ...

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Mama, I’m Alive (1977)

In a Russian POW camp, four Germans determined to end WWII agree to pose as Red Army soldiers. Are they patriots or traitors, heroes or opportunists? Although they go to the frontlines, their new Russian comrades are initially unsure whether to trust them. ...

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Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben (1976)

Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the world play his music, but he lives modestly and is dependent upon private patrons. Nagged by his patronizing brothers, spied upon by officials for ...

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Escape of Mr. McKinley (1975)

A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… He wake ...

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Discovery (1973)

This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied biochemistry. The events in it are developing in 20 years during the Civil war, when he sent a geologist searching for copper in the coal mines of the merchant Stasova, and ...

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The Commander of the Lucky 'Pike' (1973)

1942, Polar region. The Germans are preparing to capture Murmansk. The submarine Sch-721 is considered lucky, and its captain Aleksei Strogov has the ability to extricate himself from the most difficult situations. He also develops tactics for a periscope- ...

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Solaris (1972)

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repress ...

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Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971)

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma. ...

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King Lear (1970)

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns f ...

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The Red Tent (1969)

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia. ...

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The Dead Season (1968)

Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works a former German war criminal Dr. Hass, who is finishing the creation of a deadly chemical gas RH development of which he began during WW2 experimenting on w ...

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Operation 'Trust' (1968)

A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia. ...

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The Little Prince (1966)

Based on the classic novella, "Le petit prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. ...

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Beware of the Car! (1966)

An insurance agent who moonlights as a carthief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood. ...

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Nobody Wanted to Die (1966)

The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between the Soviets and the "brothers in the woods", who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets af ...

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March, march! Tra-ta-ta! (1964)

Directed by Raimondas Vabalas, an eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet, making fun of chauvinism and petty politicians. ...

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The Chronicle of One Day (1963)

An academic heads to Leningrad to attend the funeral of an old friend. ...

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Adam Wants to Be a Man (1960)

In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds, lives Adam, a naive young man with no job and a lot of dreams. His closest friend is the Captain, an old sea wolf with many tales to tell about Singapore, Hawaii a ...

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Maryte (1947)

The poor Melnik family lives in Zarasai region. Elder Mary parents struggle to send Marry to school but they did this anyway. The horizons of the girl, who until then had learned only from the old grandfather Peter, are spreading there, she, as if seeing h ...

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