Antanas Šurna
Acting
Biography
Antanas Šurna (27 March 1939 – 19 May 2014) was a Lithuanian stage and movie actor. He has appeared in over 100 movies and 50 plays. He is thought to be one of the most successful actors in Lithuania. His career began during the late 1960s. He won many awards during his 40-year career. Šurna died suddenly from cardiac arrest in Vilnius, Lithuania, aged 75.
Born: March 27, 1940
Known For
State Border: Vol. 7. Salty Wind
A group of saboteurs was sent into Estonia in 1959. This group included a local resident who also has his own personal goal: to find the daughter he lost at the end of the war while fleeing abroad.
Men Summer
This historical detective story portrays a dramatic life situation in post-war Lithuania. After the Soviets occupied Lithuania, many young men took up arms and went to the woods to resist.
Shattered Sky
A son returns to his parents in Lithuania after years of traveling over all USSR and brings with him his Ukrainian wife.
I'll Not Become a Gangster, Dear
A criminal story based on the novels by O. Henry.
Defiance
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
Ave, Vita
A survivor of a Nazi concentration camp returns to his life in Lithuania and attempts to reunite with his former comrades years after the war ended. He struggles to bridge the gap between his horrific memories of the Holocaust and the mundane reality of his modern surroundings. While interacting with his daughter and old friends, he searches for a way to integrate his past trauma into a peaceful present.
Walnut Bread
Lithuania, 1977. Memories of childhood, adolescence, and first love in a small provincial town, shown through complexity of human relations at this periodical film.
Fire
A story about an events occurred in Belarus in 1944 during the WWII.
Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda
A romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army
A Woman and Her Four Men
An epic tale set at the turn of the 20th century in a struggling fishing community, following the life of a woman widowed at the beginning of the film.
Filmography
as Snegiriovas
as Orthodox Rabbi
as Antanas Šeputis
as Rotmistras
as Liudas Skirmonis
as Grigolas
as Misteris Paravanicinis
as Benjaminas Kordušas
as Father
as Žandaras
as Eduardas Tynupiartas
as Janulis
as Leonas Ulba
as Dikas Deneveras
as Mišelis Nolė
as Kaminskas
as Mykolas
as Marius Nemunis („Raudonasis Marius“)
as Steponas Kreivėnas
as Pogudalov
as Herkus Mantas (tėvas ir sūnus)
as Giedraitis
as Monk
as Einas