Donatas Banionis
Birthday: 1924-04-28
Place of Birth: Kaunas, Lithuania
Biography: 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.
Movies
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Oscar winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto weaves man-made and natural sounds together in his works. Hi...
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Revisiting Solaris
The astronaut Chris Kelvin receives a visit from a woman who is a double of his dead wife. This stor...
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Solaris
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death ...
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The Red Tent
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...
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King Lear
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their ...
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Enclosure
In one of the developing countries, local and Soviet geologists discovered a tantalum ore deposit. H...
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The Adventures of Prince Florisel
A mostly comical tale of all-powerful and wealthy Bavarian prince adventures that started when princ...
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Beware of the Car!
An insurance agent who moonlights as a car thief steals cars various crooks and never from the commo...
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Operation 'Trust'
A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia....
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Adomas Mickevičius. 1798 - 1855. Realybės versijos
A documentary film about Adomas Mickevičius....
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The Thirteenth Apostle
Soviet Armenian adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles"....
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Yatra Witch
Soviet horror movie based on the play by the writer Vyacheslav Adamchik Raisa Gromyko. The film take...
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Maryte
The poor Melnik family lives in Zarasai region. Elder Mary parents struggle to send Marry to school ...
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Anna
The film tells of faithful devotion to spiritual ideals. It is based on Riga St. Anna Stocken's Life...
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Snake Catcher
The former director of a large deli Pavel Shorokhov, having returned from prison and not received th...
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Armed and Very Dangerous
America’s Wild West of the last third of the 19th century. Thousands of people rushed here in pursui...
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The Dead Season
Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works ...
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Mama, I’m Alive
In a Russian POW camp, four Germans determined to end WWII agree to pose as Red Army soldiers. Are t...
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The Silent Lithuanian Revolution
The revolution in Lithuania has already started, but no one knows who announced it and who is leadin...
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The Little Prince
Based on the classic novella, "Le petit prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupery....
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Unseeded Rye Blossom
A man who abandoned his wife and son 20 years ago is forced to deal with the consequences....
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The Centaurs
A political conspiracy is brewing in an unnamed Latin American country. Everything is in play: black...
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Anastasia
They only wanted to challenge the unjust government. But once they did...they had no way back. When ...
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Nobody Wanted to Die
The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuan...
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Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in...
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The Commander of the Lucky 'Pike'
1942, Polar region. The Germans are preparing to capture Murmansk. The submarine Sch-721 is consider...
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Adam Wants to Be a Man
In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds, lives A...
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Beethoven - Days in a Life
Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all...
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Honeymoon in America
For thirty years after the wedding, the war separated Jurgis and Morata. Now he is a famous surgeon,...
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Bloodsuckers
When a young man wants to marry a poor girl, her cousin envies her very much. She even makes everybo...
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Identification Marks None
Drama about the period of F. Dzerzhinsky's activity in 1902-1905, when he, having escaped from the V...
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Entrance to Labyrinth
The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hall...
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The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tell...
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The Courtyard
The first feature of Lithuanian Valdas Navasaitis is a drama which unravels the hopeless 1970s, when...
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The Flight of Mr. McKinley
A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky t...
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Cry of a Dolphin
The crew of the new American strategic missile submarine "Archelon" is struck by an unknown virus. T...
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Only Time...
The last day of the year ends. At the Christmas market, where a lot of people were still bustling du...
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The Chronicle of One Day
An academic heads to Leningrad to attend the funeral of an old friend....
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Cash Collector's Bag
Two cash collectors are found burned with their car but the bag is missing. Two detectives - Aleksan...
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surro...
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Territory
Discovery of gold by a group of tough people in the far Northeast of Russia....
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Nobleman Zavalnia
A kind nobleman named Zavalnya lives in the Polotsk region. His estate stands at a crossroads, so he...
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Nicolo Paganini
Biopic about Niccolo Paganini. He receives training from his father in early childhood. The best tea...
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The Life and Ascension of Yuras Bratchik
In ancient times of famine and Tatar raids, the satirist Yuras Bratchik appears to the people in the...
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At the End of the Night
On the night of June 22, 1941, a fire breaks out on a German passenger ship. The Soviet tanker "Casp...
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Seven Days After the Murder
A terrible tragedy occurs in the family of a famous general: one of his daughters is killed. The inv...
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A Child's World
A middle-aged jeweler is falling in love with a glorious woman. She, raising a son alone, is in no h...
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Vera – The Hard Way to Enlightenment
The story of Vera Lenz, a young and very attractive woman who is the daughter of a pastor and comes ...
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Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky
Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to the...
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Discovery
This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied biochemistry. Th...
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March, march! Tra-ta-ta!
An eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet, making fun of chauvinism and petty...
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Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
The second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Th...
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I'm Sorry
Pranas, now a celebrity singer, returns to his homeland from a big city. He is greeted at the airpor...
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The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce
A movie based on Julian Semyonov's novel "A Bomb for the Chairman". A West German concern is conduct...
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The Red Diplomat
The TV movie is based on several dramatic episodes from the life of the red diplomat Leonid Krasin....
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Fact
Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounde...
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The Monarch Butterfly
A young biophysicist, dreaming of spiritual and physical immortality, makes an experiment on himself...
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Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda
A romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russ...
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Captain Jack
Captain Jack, this is actually an ordinary girl, she is an informal leader among the boys, loves the...
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