Vaidotas Martinaitis
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Biography: He was Born in Gargzdai, lives in Vilnius. In 1983-1988 he studied at Klaipeda S. Simkus Higher School of Music (trumpet specialization); from 1988-1990 he studied at the Lithuanian State Conservatoire (trumpet specialization); from 1990-1994 he studied at the Lithuanian Academy of Music, Faculty of Theatre and Film, Department of Acting (actor specialization). Course director - Jonas Vaitkus. From 1991-2011 - actor at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre. Since 1999 - a member of Oskaras Korsunovas Theatre Company. Since 2012 he has been cooperating with Kaunas State Music Theatre. Since 2012 he has been working as an acting teacher at the M. K. Ciurlionis Art School. From 2012-2014 he conducted acting workshops in the sports dance collective "Ratuto". Best known for Defiance (2008), Nova Lituania (2019) and Stranger Things (2016 - 2022).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gargždai, Lithuania
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On Purpose
Overview: 8 year old Mėta has to quickly find help for her injured dog.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2023-06-06
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The Fall
Overview: The site manager of the palace of culture, sports and entertainment is thwarted by a call from his wife. Meanwhile, the children gather in the palace lobby for a martial arts session, but two boys escape.
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Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2023-03-24
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The Devil's Arithmetic
Overview: An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There she meets a young girl named Rivkah, a fellow captive in the camp. As Rivkah and Hannah struggle to survive in the face of daily atrocities, they form an unbreakable bond.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-28
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Hilma
Overview: Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) is an important part of art history and one of the first ever painters of abstract art. However, unlike the work of many of her peers at the time hers was misunderstood and neglected until long after her death. This is a story about Hilma and the circumstances which made her paintings possible. The film picks up during her early life and ends today; when her art connects with people of all religions and cultures. Just as she intended.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-19
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The Nominees
Overview: After the National Performing Arts Awards, the bus of actors returns home: everyone was nominated, but no one won. The bus is filled with thank-you speeches, karaoke and champagne. As the actors are driving along, they suddenly see their colleagues' car on the side of the road.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
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White on Blue
Overview: A small seaside resort on the coast. A young girl lives here with her mother, who keeps breaking out in tears ever since the father left the family.
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Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2004-07-04
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Blood of the Templars
Overview: 18-year old David grew up assuming that his mother and his father have died when he was a baby. He was raised by a monk and is close to completing High School. He gets into a fight during a party and discovers he is stronger than he thought he was- also, the blooding of an injury stops immediately and the wound heals within an hour. All of a sudden, the Priory of Sion and the Knights Templar show interest in the boy and the quest for the Holy Grail begins once again, with David being the one who can lead them to it.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-04-05
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The Generation of Evil
Overview: On the verge of retirement, Commissioner Gintas must undertake the investigation of a series of heinous murders, a dangerous task that could expose the many dirty secrets of several prominent members of the social elite of a small Lithuanian town.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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Warrior Angels
Overview: Elizabeth of Cooke (Joanna Pacula), a beautiful and valiant warrior returns from the Crusades to discover that her son Peter (Sander Kolosov) has been taken by Grekkor (Rutger Hauer), an ex-Lord wreaking havoc throughout the land. She sets out to locate and save Peter.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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Farewell
Overview: The sailor Audrius comes ashore for the last time in his life. The story unfolds through Audrius’ journey and his many encounters over the weekend as autumn turns to winter. He is driven by a severe lack of time. Inadequate actions and reactions make sense when we find out his secret: he’s dying of Leukemia. During his grandmother’s birthday in her countryside village, surrounded by his family and after reassuring his son, he makes a final attempt to find resolve and peace. Farewell is a moving universal tale, uplifting and heart warming, verbally laconic and visually rich. It is a clear-cut story of the human spirit, which is both relentless and immortal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-21
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The Eichmann Show
Overview: The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, who is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of 6 million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how the trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-20
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Feature Film About Life
Overview: It is highly probable that before their own death, everyone has to organise someone else’s funeral. This is by far not an easy task. In addition to the searing grief, dying also brings a number of tasks that are at once utterly alien and intensely time-critical. The main character of this film, Dovile, who unexpectedly has to bury her father, has to face the bedlam of exactly such a challenge. Overnight, the young girl has to become a skilful organiser of a family event, while also being a specialist on coffins, urns, wreaths and funeral feasts. Dovile’s journey towards organising a perfect funeral is inevitably full of hardship and mishaps, accompanied mainly by black humour and comical situations.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2021-11-24
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Milijonieriaus palikimas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2023-12-29
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Ressentiment
Overview: Seventeen-year-old Yasha is rebelling against authority. But in the USSR of 1990, some opposing forces are more dangerous than others. Determined not to give in, Yasha’s need for self-expression will propel him to the precipice of irreparable harm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2024-02-15
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Defiance
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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Emilia
Overview: Soviet Lithuania in 1972. A young theatre actress is trying to make a difference and tell the forbidden story of repression in a play.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2017-02-24
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Left-Handed Pen
Overview: A school teacher learns that her son will fail the state exams. She must choose whether to engage or leave with a clear conscience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2024-09-14
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Kunigo naudą velniai gaudo
Overview: Movie inspired by classical story "Kunigo naudą velniai gaudo" by Lithuanian writer Žemaitė. Written in 1903 story reborn in cinemas after more than 100 years.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2015-11-13
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Winter Thaw
Overview: In late nineteenth-century Russia, Martin Avdeitch is a humble shoemaker whose life has been characterized by grief. Martin must find the courage to look outside himself and trust in the goodness of God. This BYUtv original holiday special is based on Leo Tolstoy's short story, "Martin the Cobbler," and stars John Rhys-Davies.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-24
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Imported Groom
Overview: The life of local businessman Cibulkis turns upside down when his daughter Kotryna introduces him to her fiancee Fransua, as the ultra-conservative father did not expect his son-in-law to be of African American origin.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2020-01-29
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Nova Lituania
Overview: During the interwar period, a Lithuanian geography professor tries to convince the government to establish a backup state overseas, in order to save their country from ruin. However, the idea is mostly mocked and opposed. Still, there is hope in the secret support from the elderly prime minister, who has become disillusioned with politics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2020-06-26
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Dawn of War
Overview: A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2020-10-06
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Southern Chronicles
Overview: It follows Rimants who is more interested in playing rugby, listening to music and dealing on the black market than studying for school, but when he falls in love with Monika, his faith in love and the future is tested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2025-01-24
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Danka
Overview: It is so damn hard to be an adult. It’s especially hard to be an adult when you’re only 14 years old. Teenager girl Danute is the only "adult" person in her family. Obviously, this is too difficult a task for a teenager. She faces external limitations of her capabilities every day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
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A Wake
Overview: A daughter tries to organise her deceased mother’s funeral during the pandemic. Despite her efforts to stick to the tradition as much as possible in order to avoid malicious gossip from the relatives, the wake spirals into chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2025-01-16
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Lost Valentine
Overview: This adventurous romantic comedy with a light hint of eroticism tells the story of Valentine’s night miracles – it is a night, when everyone should stop lying to themselves – and to others.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2014-02-07
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Letters To Sofija
Overview: Based on a true story, this is the love affair between a Lithuanian genius and the woman and the country he adored. Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis was born into a Lithuanian peasant family in 1875. Despite his lowly origins he soon revealed himself to be a child prodigy able to both paint and compose music of startling and often frightening intensity. Soon after he was struck down by a mysterious mental illness, which would plague him for the rest of his life. During his short lifetime, Ciurlionis produced over 300 paintings and 300 musical compositions. Supporting him throughout his short and painful life was his beloved wife, Sofija Kymantaite, a journalist and political activist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-28
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China Sea
Overview: Disqualified from the sports federation for hitting a girl on the street, a martial arts champion gets canceled and is forced to stay in his desolate hometown city, where he tries to find a way back into people's hearts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
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