Vladas Bagdonas
Also Known As: Владас Багдонас
Biography: Vladas Bagdonas is Lithuanian theatre, cinema and television actor, director and singer. In 1970 V. Bagdonas graduated Lithuanian Academy of Music. During 1970-1993 he was an actor at Youth Theatre (Jaunimo teatras) in Vilnius. Since 1993 Vladas Bagdonas works as a professor at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In 2002 he was awarded with Lithuania Grand Duke Gediminas 5th Grade Medal of Honor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR
Adult: No
Birthday: January 16, 1949
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Male
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Come and See
Overview: The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-10-17
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The Edge
Overview: The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-09-23
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Guys from Mars
Overview: Black comedy about the routine of a large corporation, producing chocolate bars. The claustrophobic office space and its dwellers are part of a funny and grotesque picture. The main character, young man from the marketing department, tries to find his stolen car with the help of militia and head of a local gang. He confronts a chaotic life of a small provincial town outside his office, trying to guess its laws. As a result, he fails to fulfill the task of his American boss, and finds his Ford painted and rebuilt as a street-racer's car. Of course, his personal life also changes...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-05-05
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The Thirteenth Apostle
Overview: Soviet Armenian adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles"
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-06-02
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The Conductor
Overview: The famous conductor (Vladas Bagdonas) goes with his orchestra to Jerusalem to perform the oratorio "St. Matthew Passion." The day before he receives a telegram, stating the suicide of his son, who lived in Israel. Conductor at the time denied the artist's son, believing that he is living right. It's suicide, especially suicide note flip soul maestro's son, forced him to reconsider all their attitudes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-03-29
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Northern Crusades
Overview: Historical epic about the uprising of the Prussians agains the Teutonic crusaders.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1972-12-14
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Saduto Tuto
Overview: Story about artist caught up in summer love triangle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1974-12-01
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Exhibition
Overview: A drama based on the novel "Kvietimas". The director of the local history museum, Adamonis, has everything that, in his opinion, an employee of this rank should have: a seemingly prosperous family, employees who seem to respect him, and even a mistress. In addition, he is patronized by the first secretary of the district party committee. Hoping for a future career in Vilnius, Adamonis decided to give his benefactor one of the museum’s valuable exhibits. But new people came to the leadership of the district, demanding people who did not tolerate showing off or flattery, and Adamonis’s ambitious dreams were never destined to come true.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1988-08-11
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When the Oaks Were Falling
Overview: A faithful adaptation of the story of famous Lithuanian author Baltusis both in subject and artistic presentation. Three brothers Laurynas, Stanislovas and Antanas fall in love with one woman Kazyte and dramatic events make all three brothers go to jail for homicide, while she lives alone on their land.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1978-09-18
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Markizas ir piemenaitė
Overview: At the end of the war, a French plane was shot down by the Germans near the Nemunas River, but the injured pilot Andrė parachuted into a Lithuanian village. Domas, a miller, hides him in his mill, while young Saulė, who was Domas' bride, nurses him. They fall in love, but shortly after, Andrė's squadron mates Arrive. Five years after the end of the war, Saulė is still waiting for the Frenchman, who is said to have died near Nemunas.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1980-07-21
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Sniper: Weapons of Retaliation
Overview: This world war two story depicts the personal war between a Soviet sniper and a German sniper. Their feud continues after the war in Soviet occupied Germany. At the same time a Nazi rocket scientist continues his research while a Soviet secret police team arrives from Moscow to find hidden Nazi rocket research documents and rocket propulsion systems.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-11-11
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Utterly Alone
Overview: The film portrays Lukša's attempts, in trips to western Europe, to gain support for the armed anti-Soviet resistance (known as the Forest Brothers), whose fortunes in a guerrilla war against Soviet authorities were waning, largely due to widespread infiltration and harsh crackdowns by the NKVD.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2004-02-20
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I Am
Overview: The family breaks up. The boy Jonukas feels very lonely. He wants to find his mother himself. The search is long and difficult.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1990-01-09
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Calculator
Overview: Ten prisoners condemned to exile on a hostile planet XT-59 must pave the way through swamp to reach the Islands of Happiness, the only safe area on the planet, before the harsh climate or the underground horrors kill them all.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-12-18
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Ambush
Overview: The action takes place in Russia during the Second World War. One of the heroes - Kryukov - serves the Germans, the second - Eliseev - fights against the German occupiers.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-03
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Pirosmani, Pirosmani...
Overview: About the last days of the great Niko Pirosmanishvili, who died alone. And his only interlocutors were the heroes of the paintings...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-05-24
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Lobis. Unknown Trasures
Overview: Austeja's parents get a job opportunity they do not want to say no to, and send their daughter to the country with the grandparents together with another child, Martynas. The children are bored at first, but they quickly discover that their stay in the country is anything but boring.
Genres: Family
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2022-02-04
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Earth the Foster-Mother
Overview: The peasant Juras Tarutis takes part in the struggle for independent Lithuania and in the election campaign for the Sejm, painfully experiencing the fascist coup in 1926. At first, he firmly believes in land reform and only after difficult trials, he become disillusioned with the reform and with the bourgeois system itself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1977-07-14
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The Process of Giordano Bruno
Overview: Life of Giordano Bruno, including the infamous trial where he was declared as heretic, and the Inquisition issued a sentence of death.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1977-01-20
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Twenty Minutes with an Angel
Overview: The second part of the collection "Provincial jokes".
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1975-05-28
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Switch
Overview: My parents were vacationing in Bulgaria, my grandfather and I lived soul to soul and cooked not according to schedule, but only when we wanted to. I didn't have a girlfriend, I didn't work, I didn't study, I ate a lot of butter out of inertia. I read the "Fundamentals of Archaeology" by Professor Avdusin, copied out poems from a homemade notebook. It was the best June of my life...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-01-22
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Пробуждение
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1991-03-11
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The Dig
Overview: Three old fiends decide to take vacation from the everyday life and join the archeological expedition.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-01-22
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Gladiator for Rent
Overview: The owner of the private detective agency Ilya Mirsky receives a tempting offer from the wife of media mogul Eva Lukachyova - he should not allow the leak of compromising information, which would deprive Eva of her multimillion-dollar inheritance. Deciding to take the case, Ilya could have hardly imagined that he would have to face a whole series of sophisticated murder, and that the result would be in the danger of his own life.
Genres: Mystery Action Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-05-31
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Forget About the Return
Overview: In the port of Danzig, the military transport Tyrol is preparing to leave, on board which are selected SS units and seventy naval crews. The commander of the Soviet submarine "S-31", which received serious damage, receives the task of detecting and attacking enemy transport...
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-09-06
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House of Fools
Overview: The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. The patients have to continue living their day to day life after being invaded twice over, and they have to deal with their sicknesses.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-12-06
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Walnut Bread
Overview: Lithuania, 1977. Memories of childhood, adolescence, and first love in a small provincial town, shown through complexity of human relations at this periodical film.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1977-12-17
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Žaltvykslės
Overview: A little boy and a story teller look into the microscope to find out that the world in a drop of a water looks like a real world, so they dive into it and meet different personalities, miracles and events.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1980-09-05
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Reminiscence
Overview: Eleonore and Jonas, an elderly couple, invite a real estate agent round to sell their flat. While Eleonore barely speaks, Jonas reminisces about their first encounter, which happened 60 years ago in this very flat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 2025-01-16
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The Roots of Grass
Overview: A romantic story about the relations between Lithuanians and Latvians at Russian Empire times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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The Veldt
Overview: Adaptation of three short stories by Ray Bradbury. An atmosphere of hostility forms inside an unnamed city, and the citizens are unsettled by the materialization of ghosts and the memories of their loved ones.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-06-10
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