
Antanas Šurna
Actor · 1940 – 2014
Antanas Šurna (27 March 1939 – 19 May 2014) was a Lithuanian stage and movie actor. He has appeared in over 100 movies and 50 plays. He is thought to be one of the most successful actors in Lithuania. His career began during the late 1960s. He won many awards during his 40-year career. Šurna died suddenly from cardiac arrest in Vilnius, Lithuania, aged 75.
Movies19
Movie6.8DramaHistoryBased 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.
Defiance
2008 · 2K votes
Movie5.5DramaActionThe 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.
Movie6.7RomanceIn rural postwar Lithuania, the Šatai and Kaminskai families live beside each other. A cow sold to the Kaminskai dies, creating enmity between the families. Andrius Šatas and Liuka Kaminskaitė grow up together and fall in love.
MovieDramaBased on the novel of the same name by Raimondas Kašauskas, about a strange man who is restless, who wants to live differently from everyone else, to play life.
Movie6.3DramaThe rich widow Marta Anker, owner of a renowned trading company, loves the poor fisherman Ansą Balčiai. The locals keep the ongoings under close watch.
MovieDramaHistoryTragic pages in the history of the formation of the independent Lithuanian state in 1918-20.
Movie5.8AdventureDramaA romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army
Movie6.0DramaMysteryAn epic tale set at the turn of the 20th century in a struggling fishing community, following the life of a woman widowed at the beginning of the film.
Movie8.0ComedyA criminal story based on the novels by O. Henry.
MovieAdventureCrimeLithuania in the 19th century: While the first railway-road is built from Warsaw to Moscow throughout the country people are still facing slavery and oppression from the elite. A fight between the Robin-Hood-like gang leader Laurynas and the greedy landowner Laurnyas emerges.
MovieDramaHistoryThe film covers the events in Lithuania in 1940-1945 and tells about the life of the Lithuanian intelligentsia. The characters are placed in crisis situations, when the problem of choosing a path, the problem of social and historical self-determination of the fate of the people and each person inevitably arises.
Movie6.7DramaWarA survivor of a Nazi concentration camp returns to his life in Lithuania and attempts to reunite with his former comrades years after the war ended. He struggles to bridge the gap between his horrific memories of the Holocaust and the mundane reality of his modern surroundings. While interacting with his daughter and old friends, he searches for a way to integrate his past trauma into a peaceful present.
Ave, Vita
1969 · 7 votes
Movie5.6DramaHistoryHistorical epic about the uprising of the Prussians agains the Teutonic crusaders.
Movie6.5WarDramaA story about an events occurred in Belarus in 1944 during the WWII.
Movie4.8AdventureTV MovieA musical movie based on Jack London novels.
MovieHistoryDramaThe film tells about the life of the Lithuanian landed nobility in the period between the two wars, about the desire to live their old life. But new times dictate new conditions, new values emerge, and loyalty to old ideals is doomed...
Movie9.0CrimeMysteryThis historical detective story portrays a dramatic life situation in post-war Lithuania. After the Soviets occupied Lithuania, many young men took up arms and went to the woods to resist.
Movie8.6DramaWarA group of saboteurs was sent into Estonia in 1959. This group included a local resident who also has his own personal goal: to find the daughter he lost at the end of the war while fleeing abroad.
- Movie5.2Drama
At the end of the 19th century, proud but poor fisherman Jurgaitis gets imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. His beautiful daughter Elze is sent to live with rich German merchant Michael. There she falls for his son Endrik.
Series3
TVDrama
TVDramaA two part mini-series based on Jonas Avyžius novels.
TV5.2MysteryCrimePelėkautai
1986 · 5 votes