Donatas Banionis
Birthday: Born in 1924-04-28 in Kaunas, Lithuania
Deathday: 2014-09-04
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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Вход в лабиринт
Character: Mazardi
A Russian mystery miniseries set both in medieval times and in the days of Perestroika....
Ниро Вульф и Арчи Гудвин
Character: Nero Wolfe
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Новые приключения Ниро Вульфа и Арчи Гудвина
Character: Nero Wolfe
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Жизнь и смерть Фердинанда Люса
Character: Ferdinand Luce - left-wing journalist
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Операция «Трест»
Character: Эдуард Оттович Стауниц - барон
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Character: Kris Kelvin (archive footage)
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....
Revisiting Solaris
Character: Chris Kelvin
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 Deimantas Narkevičius, Tarkovsky was not as critical of the increasing impact of electronic media on relationships and on the complex nature of human memory as Lem, the original author of the story. In this video, the actor Donatas Banionis reappe...
Solaris
Character: Kris Kelvin
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 repressed memories and obsessions....
The Red Tent
Character: Adalberto Mariano
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia....
King Lear
Character: Albany
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 for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about hi...
Enclosure
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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, organize student unrest and provoke a severance of diplomatic ties with the USSR......
The Adventures of Prince Florisel
Character: Ник Николс, "Председатель"
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 any means necessary, following deaths of several servants when dreaded president of club makes dashing escape. During that point, story changes into nearly second movie, as prince has to uncover yet another crime....
Beware of the Car!
Character: Priest
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....
Operation 'Trust'
Character: Eduard Ottovich Staunits
A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia....
Adomas Mickevičius. 1798 - 1855. Realybės versijos
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A documentary film about Adomas Mickevičius....
Yatra Witch
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Soviet horror movie based on the play by the writer Vyacheslav Adamchik Raisa Gromyko. The film takes place in the XVI century....
Maryte
Character: Nephew of Petras
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 herself in her place, tells the class about the legendary hero of Lithuanian history Grazina. Deprivation prevents Maryte from graduating, so she starts working in a candy factory where she hears political inferences. 1940, Vilnius is returned t...
Depression
Character: "Oldster"
A crime story which take action in Riga Sea Port....
Snake Catcher
Character: Mitrich-Kolobok
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 unaccounted goods movement system. Kotov, who is near death, transfers lists to Shorokhov and thereby puts him at risk from former accomplices. But Shorokhov breaks the pledge circle......
Armed and Very Dangerous
Character: Gabriel Conroy
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 land, the local moneybags Peter Damphy decided to appropriate the land, and succeeded in it by blackmailing Conroy’s wife and his former mistress Julie... Based upon stories by Francis Bret Harte....
The Dead Season
Character: Konstantin Ladeinikov
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 war prisoners. Since Ladeynikov doesn't know Dr. Hass's appearance, Soviet intelligence recruits an actor, Ivan Savushkin, who during the war escaped from a prison camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together they must identify and stop him bef...
Mama, I’m Alive
Character: Mauris
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. Three of them then accept a mission behind German lines, but they are unprepared to fire upon their countrymen and it ends up costing the life of a Russian soldier. In the meantime, the fourth man has fallen in love with Russian radio operator...
The Silent Lithuanian Revolution
Character: Donatas Banionis
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 the further course of events....
The Little Prince
Character: Adult
Based on the classic novella, "Le petit prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupery....
Unseeded Rye Blossom
Character: Antanas Petrušonis
A man who abandoned his wife and son 20 years ago is forced to deal with the consequences....
The Centaurs
Character: The President
The story takes place in an unnamed Latin Country....
Nobody Wanted to Die
Character: Vaitkus
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 after the end of the Second World War....
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Character: Goya
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....
The Commander of the Lucky 'Pike'
Character: Viktor Sherknis
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-free torpedo attack, despite the skepticism of colleagues and management. And now, when the Happy "Pike" had to take on board the crew of another Soviet submarine, and she was on the seabed with almost no oxygen, Aleksei manages to save people ...
Adam Wants to Be a Man
Character: Dausa
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 and other equally exotic and sunny places. Inspired by his stories, Adam manages to get a job in an emigration bureau and starts saving for his ticket to leave abroad....
Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben
Character: Ludwig van Beethoven
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 his republican beliefs and faced by his progressive hearing loss, the composer becomes more and more isolated. Seeman’s poetic film explores the joys, heartbreak and artistic spirit of the great composer as he works on his Ninth Symphony....
Medaus mėnuo Amerikoje
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Bloodsuckers
Character: Telyaev
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 luxurious villa with some strange relatives. The people inside villa are vampires, they were called upyri in those days in Russia. They suck blood of anyone who comes to see them. The young man too much in love so he looses his head and goes directly ...
Identification Marks None
Character: Harting
Drama about Feliks Dzerzhinsky's life...
Entrance to Labyrinth
Character: Mazardi
The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hallucinations) and in the days of Perestroika....
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
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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....
Where have you been, Odysseus?
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A story of a Soviet spy working in France during WWII....
Human Target
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A detective goes undercover in a small Russian town....
The Courtyard
Character: The old man
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 family, several families seek shelter. Senis, a 65-year-old alcoholic, lives on the ground floor with his wife and their 16-year-old daughter. Senis is a survivor of the Nazis as well as the communist camps. He drowns the pain of his memories i...
Escape of Mr. McKinley
Character: мистер Мак-Кинли
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 wakes up! Thank God it was just a dream! Or was it?...
Cry of a Dolphin
Character: Bar-Mattay, professor, psychologist (voiced by Yuri Chekulaev)
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....
The Limit of Truth
Character: Ožoginas
Tele play about scientists....
Meeting
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Based on the play “Impossible Meeting” by P. Barz....
The Chronicle of One Day
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An academic heads to Leningrad to attend the funeral of an old friend....
Cash Collector's Bag
Character: Aleksey Tulyakov
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....
Andrius
Character: Rauplėnas
A young boy Andrius learns a magic words which open a door to another world....
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas....
Territory
Character: Chinkov
Discovery of gold by a group of tough people in the far Northeast of Russia....
Шляхтич Завальня
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Nicolo Paganini
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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, Paris, London and many other cities of Europe. He is always playing from memory, wearing black, and his stage appearance supports the rumors of his supernatural abilities. He is a wealthy man, but gambling and reckless spending forces him to paw...
The Life and Ascension of Yuras Bratchik
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На исходе ночи
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Seven Days After the Murder
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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....
A Child's World
Character: Mikhail Rasporkin
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....
Vera – The Hard Way to Enlightenment
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Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky
Character: Self
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 personal life. The film brings us closer to the man to whom contemporary filmmaking owes so much....
Discovery
Character: Сергей Матвеевич Юрышев (академик)
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 in the 70s, when the head of the Institute. His thoughts and actions as if he reconciles his past, revolutionary romanticism 20-h his life's work was the discovery of a new chemical element. He believes in getting it even when the explosion i...
Капитан Джек
Character: Митя
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March, march! Tra-ta-ta!
Character: Major Varnalesa
Directed by Raimondas Vabalas, an eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet, making fun of chauvinism and petty politicians....
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
Character: Sveneld
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 death of his father, Grand Prince Svyatoslav, which ignites a power struggle among Vladimir and his brothers. The film emphasizes that Russian princes only succeeded when they maintained good relations with the Bulgars and other steppe nations...
I'm Sorry
Character: Guest from Vilnius
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....
The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce
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Fact
Character: Colonel Titel
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 few survivors, the testimony of villagers, and some of the Germans responsible for the killing, the film gradually reconstructs the event and its context....
The Monarch Butterfly
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A young biophysicist, dreaming of spiritual and physical immortality, makes an experiment on himself: by radioactive irradiation he violates the genetic code, as a result of which he passes into another biological substance and becomes immeasurably more perfect than his fellows on Earth....