Donatas Banionis
Acting
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.
Born: April 28, 1924
Place of Birth: Kaunas, Lithuania
Known For
Discovery
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 in the laboratory takes the life of his closest friend and colleague, when his grown-up adopted son, becoming also a chemist, suffered during the experiments. Believe when testing on military ground again fail…
Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin
The adventures of detective Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.
Operation 'Trust'
The series is about the operation code-named "Trest", which under the leadership of F.E.Dzerzhinsky was carried out by the VChK to identify and eliminate the counter-revolutionary and monarchist underground on the territory of the USSR, associated with foreign white-emigrant organizations.
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin
New York, 1930s. The courageous and hyperactive Archie Goodwin risks his life to carry out dangerous assignments, gathering information for his boss's conclusions and brilliant verdicts. Meanwhile, the intellectual Nero Wolfe, without leaving his mansion, solves even the most complicated crimes.
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 surrounding Jonas Mekas.
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 from a small coastal village on the North Sea (FRG). She is intelligent, determined, but also hungry for adventure, and she fascinates the world of men. She has developed into an accomplished secretary with excellent foreign language skills - predestined for an international career. Her meeting with Colonel Shelvin paves the way for this: Vera is able to take up a position at NATO headquarters in Brussels and, thanks to her achievements, she travels to many countries and meets countless interesting people.
March, march! Tra-ta-ta!
An eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet, making fun of chauvinism and petty politicians.
The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce
A West German concern is conducting secret negotiations with an interested state on the production of an atomic bomb. The son of the head of the concern, realizing the enormity and scope of his father's activities, interrupts the negotiations and returns home with the intention of publicizing his father's activities.
Solaris
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.
Beware of the Car!
An insurance agent who moonlights as a car thief 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.
Filmography
as Kris Kelvin (archive footage)
as Donatas Banionis
as Murovjovas
as Chris Kelvin
as Nero Wolfe
as Nero Wolfe
as The old man
as "Oldster"
as Telyaev
as Mazardi
as Mazardi
as Bar-Mattay - professor psychologist
as Mitrich-Kolobok
as Self (archive footage)
as Ožoginas
as Guest from Vilnius
as Mikhail Rasporkin
as Colonel Titel
as Rauplėnas
as Chinkov
as Antanas Petrušonis
as The President
as Ник Николс, "Председатель"
as Harting
as Gabriel Conroy
as Aleksey Tulyakov
as Mauris
as Ferdinand Luce - left-wing journalist
as Ludwig van Beethoven
as мистер Мак-Кинли
as Сергей Матвеевич Юрышев (академик)
as Viktor Sherknis
as Митя
as Kris Kelvin
as Albany
as Adalberto Mariano
as Konstantin Ladeinikov
as Эдуард Оттович Стауниц - барон
as Eduard Ottovich Staunits
as Adult
as пастор, покупатель
as Vaitkus
as Major Varnalesa
as Dausa
as Nephew of Petras