Donatas Banionis

AKA: Donatas Banionis, Донатас Банёнис, Донатас Юозович Банионис

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1924-04-28

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.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {75}

Kris Kelvin (archive footage)

2017-11-04 7.353

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

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 2 ...

Genre :Documentary, Music

Kris Kelvin

1972-03-20 7.8

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 o ...

Genre :Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery

Chris Kelvin

2007-01-01 0

Revisiting Solaris

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 ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Documentary

Adalberto Mariano

1969-12-23 6

The Red Tent

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia. ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, History

Albany

1970-12-15 6.542

King Lear

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 ...

Genre :Drama

1988-03-19 2

Enclosure

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 influe ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime

Ник Николс, "Председатель"

1979-01-01 6.5

The Adventures of Prince Florisel

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 master ...

Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Mystery

пастор, покупатель

1966-05-22 7.6

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 assign ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Eduard Ottovich Staunits

1968-05-22 5.5

Operation 'Trust'

A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia. ...

Genre :Adventure, History, TV Movie

1998-01-01 0

Adomas Mickevičius. 1798 - 1855. Realybės versijos

A documentary film about Adomas Mickevičius. ...

Genre :Documentary

1988-06-02 5

The Thirteenth Apostle

Soviet Armenian adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles". ...

Genre :Science Fiction

1991-01-17 5.5

Yatra Witch

Soviet horror movie based on the play by the writer Vyacheslav Adamchik Raisa Gromyko. The film takes place in the XVI century. ...

Genre :Horror, History, Drama

Nephew of Petras

1947-01-01 0

Maryte

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 gra ...

Genre :

1996-03-01 0

Anna

The film tells of faithful devotion to spiritual ideals. It is based on Riga St. Anna Stocken's Life Story of the Cistercian Monastery of Mary Magdalene. ...

Genre :History, Mystery

"Oldster"

1991-06-06 4.571

Depression

A crime story which take action in Riga Sea Port. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Action, Mystery

Mitrich-Kolobok

1986-03-14 3

Snake Catcher

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, ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Gabriel Conroy

1978-01-09 5

Armed and Very Dangerous

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. ...

Genre :Adventure, Western

Konstantin Ladeinikov

1968-12-06 5.1

The Dead Season

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 de ...

Genre :War, Thriller

Mauris

1977-02-24 3.6

Mama, I’m Alive

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 Russ ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, War

Donatas Banionis

2013-02-07 0

The Silent Lithuanian Revolution

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 characte ...

Genre :Documentary

Adult

1966-12-06 5

The Little Prince

Based on the classic novella, "Le petit prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. ...

Genre :Family, Fantasy

Antanas Petrušonis

1979-11-01 0

Unseeded Rye Blossom

A man who abandoned his wife and son 20 years ago is forced to deal with the consequences. ...

Genre :Drama

The President

1979-01-29 2.7

The Centaurs

A political conspiracy is brewing in an unnamed Latin American country. Everything is in play: blackmail, bribery, political assassinations, newspaper slander. The operation, code-named "Centaur", is ...

Genre :Drama, History

Doctor's father

2006-01-01 0

Anastasia

They only wanted to challenge the unjust government. But once they did...they had no way back. When Baltic states regain their independence from the Soviet Union, thousands of Russians living outside ...

Genre :Drama

Vaitkus

1966-04-18 5.357

Nobody Wanted to Die

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", w ...

Genre :Drama, Action, History, War

Goya

1971-09-15 5.143

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 King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents ...

Genre :Drama, History

Viktor Sherknis

1973-04-29 5

The Commander of the Lucky 'Pike'

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 difficu ...

Genre :War, Action, Adventure, Drama

Dausa

1960-03-06 5.563

Adam Wants to Be a Man

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 se ...

Genre :Drama

Ludwig van Beethoven

1976-10-14 5.2

Beethoven - Days in a Life

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 ...

Genre :Drama, History, Music

1982-11-01 7

Honeymoon in America

For thirty years after the wedding, the war separated Jurgis and Morata. Now he is a famous surgeon, he works in the USA under the name of George Sticker and does not know that his daughter has grown ...

Genre :Drama

Telyaev

1991-01-01 3.3

Bloodsuckers

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 ...

Genre :Thriller, Horror

Harting

1979-01-01 0

Identification Marks None

Drama about the period of F. Dzerzhinsky's activity in 1902-1905, when he, having escaped from the Viluysk prison, lived in Poland. ...

Genre :Drama

Mazardi

1990-05-01 3.4

Entrance to Labyrinth

The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hallucinations) and in the days of Perestroika. ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery

2004-12-31 0.5

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". Tells the story of pagan Rus' during the time of Prince Igor, his murder by the Drevlyans, Olga's reveng ...

Genre :History, Drama

1978-09-13 6

Where have you been, Odysseus?

A story of a Soviet spy working in France during WWII. ...

Genre :Adventure, War

1990-06-04 5

Human Target

A detective goes undercover in a small Russian town. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

The old man

2000-03-08 0

The Courtyard

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 ...

Genre :Drama

мистер Мак-Кинли

1975-12-15 4.1

The Flight of Mr. McKinley

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 o ...

Genre :Science Fiction

Bar-Mattay - professor psychologist

1987-04-13 4.7

Cry of a Dolphin

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 ...

Genre :Action, Thriller

Ožoginas

1986-02-04 0

The Limit of Truth

Tele play about scientists. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

2005-05-30 0

Meeting

Based on the play “Impossible Meeting” by P. Barz. ...

Genre :Drama

Alexander Yanovich

2002-01-01 0

Only Time...

The last day of the year ends. At the Christmas market, where a lot of people were still bustling during the day, in the evening there were only three snow-covered graces, three beautiful women. They ...

Genre :Drama

1963-12-29 5.4

The Chronicle of One Day

An academic heads to Leningrad to attend the funeral of an old friend. ...

Genre :Drama

Aleksey Tulyakov

1977-12-01 3.5

Cash Collector's Bag

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. ...

Genre :Mystery

Rauplėnas

1980-12-29 7

Andrius

A young boy Andrius learns a magic words which open a door to another world. ...

Genre :Family, Fantasy, Adventure

Self (archive footage)

1986-02-22 8.2

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. ...

Genre :Documentary

Chinkov

1979-12-01 6.5

Territory

Discovery of gold by a group of tough people in the far Northeast of Russia. ...

Genre :Drama, Adventure

1994-01-01 0

Nobleman Zavalnia

A kind nobleman named Zavalnya lives in the Polotsk region. His estate stands at a crossroads, so he always has many guests in his house. And everyone knows that Pan Zavalnya loves fantastic stories m ...

Genre :Fantasy, Drama

1982-01-04 1.7

Nicolo Paganini

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-t ...

Genre :Drama

1967-02-01 7

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 guise of Christ, and the people believe in a miracle. The cunning monk Bosyatsky decides to use thi ...

Genre :Drama

1988-05-16 5

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 "Caspian" comes to its aid - and navigator Nikolai Borshch rescues a German girl, being severely injured ...

Genre :War, Drama, History

1991-01-03 4.3

Seven Days After the Murder

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 t ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery

Mikhail Rasporkin

1982-03-21 6.5

A Child's World

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. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

1989-01-29 8

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 ...

Genre :Drama

Self

2012-04-04 0

Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky

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 locati ...

Genre :Documentary

Сергей Матвеевич Юрышев (академик)

1973-06-22 10

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 f ...

Genre :Drama

Митя

1972-04-02 7

Капитан Джек

Genre :Romance, Family

Major Varnalesa

1964-12-27 8

March, march! Tra-ta-ta!

An eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet, making fun of chauvinism and petty politicians. ...

Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

Sveneld

2004-12-31 0

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". The film depicts the life and reign of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich of Kiev, known in legends as Vlad ...

Genre :History

Guest from Vilnius

1982-12-05 5

I'm Sorry

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. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1977-02-07 7.5

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 conducting secret negotiations on the production of an atomic bomb with an interested state. The son of the ...

Genre :Mystery, Adventure

Savva Morozov

1971-01-01 0

The Red Diplomat

The TV movie is based on several dramatic episodes from the life of the red diplomat Leonid Krasin. ...

Genre :History, Drama

Colonel Titel

1981-06-04 4.5

Fact

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 w ...

Genre :Drama, War

1980-05-12 0

The Monarch Butterfly

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 anoth ...

Genre :Science Fiction, TV Movie

Murovjovas

2011-01-01 5.767

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 ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, History, Romance

1972-07-13 7

Captain Jack

Captain Jack, this is actually an ordinary girl, she is an informal leader among the boys, loves the sea very much and spends a lot of time on the decommissioned ship Signal. The film tells the amazin ...

Genre :Family

2004-01-01 0

Kauno bliuzas

Genre :Drama

Mazardi

1990-05-01 6.3

Entrance to the Maze

A Russian mystery miniseries set both in medieval times and in the days of Perestroika. ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

Nero Wolfe

2002-01-03 9

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin

The adventures of detective Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. ...

Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Family

Nero Wolfe

2004-11-30 8.8

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, th ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime, Family

Ferdinand Luce - left-wing journalist

1977-02-07 8

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 ...

Genre :Drama

Эдуард Оттович Стауниц - барон

1968-05-22 9

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 under ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, War & Politics

1985-06-26 0

To the Coming Century

An adaptation of Georgy Markov's novel of the same name – the final part of the trilogy about several generations of the Strogov family. ...