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.
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the...
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The Red Tent
as Adalberto MarianoTorn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic...
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
as Kris Kelvin (archive footage)Oscar winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto weaves man-made and natural sounds together in his...
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Beware of the Car!
as пастор, покупательAn insurance agent who moonlights as a carthief steals cars various crooks and never from the...
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Adam Wants to Be a Man
as DausaIn a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds,...
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King Lear
as AlbanyKing Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to...
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Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben
as Ludwig van BeethovenVienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras...
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The Little Prince
as AdultBased on the classic novella, "Le petit prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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The Dead Season
as Konstantin LadeinikovSoviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town...
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Depression
as "Oldster"A crime story which take action in Riga Sea Port.
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A Child's World
as Mikhail RasporkinA middle-aged jeweler is falling in love with a glorious woman. She, raising a son alone, is in...
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community...
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The Commander of the Lucky 'Pike'
as Viktor Sherknis1942, Polar region. The Germans are preparing to capture Murmansk. The submarine Sch-721 is...
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The Adventures of Prince Florisel
as Ник Николс, "Председатель"A mostly comical tale of all-powerful and wealthy Bavarian prince adventures that started when...
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Nobody Wanted to Die
as VaitkusThe film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small...
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Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
as SveneldThe second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars"....
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Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
as GoyaAs a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He...
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I'm Sorry
as Guest from VilniusPranas, now a celebrity singer, returns to his homeland from a big city. He is greeted at the...
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Bloodsuckers
as TelyaevWhen a young man wants to marry a poor girl, her cousin envies her very much. She even makes...
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Nicolo Paganini
as uncreditedBiopic about Niccolo Paganini. He receives training from his father in early childhood. The best...
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Operation 'Trust'
as Eduard Ottovich StaunitsA story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia.
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Entrance to Labyrinth
as MazardiThe actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists'...
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Cry of a Dolphin
as Bar-Mattay, professor, psychologist (voiced by Yuri Chekulaev)The crew of the new American strategic missile submarine "Archelon" is struck by an unknown...
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Yatra Witch
as uncreditedSoviet horror movie based on the play by the writer Vyacheslav Adamchik Raisa Gromyko. The film...
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Seven Days After the Murder
as uncreditedA terrible tragedy occurs in the family of a famous general: one of his daughters is killed. The...
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Mama, I’m Alive
as MaurisIn a Russian POW camp, four Germans determined to end WWII agree to pose as Red Army soldiers....
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Escape of Mr. McKinley
as мистер Мак-КинлиA man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling...
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March, march! Tra-ta-ta!
as Major VarnalesaDirected by Raimondas Vabalas, an eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet,...
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Identification Marks None
as HartingDrama about Feliks Dzerzhinsky's life
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The Centaurs
as The PresidentThe story takes place in an unnamed Latin Country.
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The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
as uncreditedThe first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars"....
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Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky
as SelfDedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to...
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The Courtyard
as The old manThe first feature of Lithuanian Valdas Navasaitis is a drama which unravels the hopeless 1970s,...
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Discovery
as Сергей Матвеевич Юрышев (академик)This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied...
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Enclosure
as uncreditedIn one of the developing countries, local and Soviet geologists discovered a tantalum ore...
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The Monarch Butterfly
as uncreditedA young biophysicist, dreaming of spiritual and physical immortality, makes an experiment on...
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Revisiting Solaris
as Chris KelvinThe astronaut Chris Kelvin receives a visit from a woman who is a double of his dead wife. This...
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The Chronicle of One Day
as uncreditedAn academic heads to Leningrad to attend the funeral of an old friend.
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Fact
as Colonel TitelFacts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis...
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Snake Catcher
as Mitrich-KolobokThe former director of a large deli Pavel Shorokhov, having returned from prison and not...
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Cash Collector's Bag
as Aleksey TulyakovTwo cash collectors are found burned with their car but the bag is missing. Two detectives -...
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Territory
as ChinkovDiscovery of gold by a group of tough people in the far Northeast of Russia.
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The Silent Lithuanian Revolution
as Donatas BanionisThe revolution in Lithuania has already started, but no one knows who announced it and who is...
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Meeting
as uncreditedBased on the play “Impossible Meeting” by P. Barz.
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Human Target
as uncreditedA detective goes undercover in a small Russian town.
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Andrius
as RauplėnasA young boy Andrius learns a magic words which open a door to another world.
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Armed and Very Dangerous
as Gabriel ConroyAmerica’s Wild West of the last third of the 19th century. Thousands of people rushed here in...
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Where have you been, Odysseus?
as uncreditedA story of a Soviet spy working in France during WWII.
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Unseeded Rye Blossom
as Antanas PetrušonisA man who abandoned his wife and son 20 years ago is forced to deal with the consequences.
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Adomas Mickevičius. 1798 - 1855. Realybės versijos
as uncreditedA documentary film about Adomas Mickevičius.
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Maryte
as Nephew of PetrasThe poor Melnik family lives in Zarasai region. Elder Mary parents struggle to send Marry to...
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The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce
as Ferdinand Luce - left-wing journalist
Entrance to the Maze
as MazardiA Russian mystery miniseries set both in medieval times and in the days of Perestroika.
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