Donatas Banionis

A psychologist is sent to investigate the mysterious crisis which has occurred on board a space station orbiting a remote planet.

As the leader of a 1928 Arctic airship expedition watches a television program about the disastrous undertaking, the ghosts of those involved in the voyage and subsequent rescue attempts gather to determine his guilt in the affair. Most of the film is a flash-back to the voyage and the international efforts to rescue the crew of the airship from an ice flow. (imdb)

Russian adaptation of King Lear

Based on Antoine de saint Exupery story "Le Petit Prince"

The main hero Adam lives in weirdo barges of the old captain. Adam works in an office of emigration "Alpha" and dreams about going away with the girl he loves. The problem is that he's not the only one who loves that girl.

Drama surrounding the travels of an academic who heads to Leningrad to attend the funeral of an old friend. The film's action advances through a series of flashbacks of the two old friends, their experiences in World War II and the academic rise and prominent Soviet scientist and his subsequent repression of his work by the government. (imdb)

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", who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets after the end of the Second World War. (imdb)

This is a movie about Samogitia before the great Lithuanian uprising. It tells the story about legendary Tadas Blinda and his youth.

This film only evokes one day, the last day of a Lithuanian village of which all the inhabitants have been massacred, shot and burnt by Nazi executioners Saturday, June 3td. 1944. But the action unfolds in the past and in the present because man's memory does not forget and does not pardon genocide. (mubi.com)

n an adaptation of Rex Stout's short story "Before I Die", detective Nero Wolfe (Donatas Banionis) and his legman Archie Goodwin (Sergei Zhigunov) are hired by a powerful mobster to stop a blackmailer and prevent his daughter's identity from being revealed. (imdb)

In post-War America, the leader of the Bureau of Price Regulations is murdered. When Wolfe takes the case, and he and Goodwin starts sifting through the mess, no one is above suspicion.

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 development of which he began during WW2 experimenting on war prisoners. Since Ladeynikov doesn't know Dr. Hass's appearance, Soviet intelligence recruits an actor, Ivan Savushkin, who during the war escaped from a prison camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together they must identify and stop him bef

Four young Germans in a Soviet POW camp decide to join the Red Army to hasten the end of the war. Their new identities elicit different reactions from Germans and Russians and are difficult to live up to when they are sent behind German lines. (DEFA Film Library)

The story of the confrontation between Prince Florizel and a cunning and cruel criminal nicknamed the Chairman. (imdb)