
Gediminas Girdvainis
Actor · 1944 – 2020 · Kretinga, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]
Gediminas Girdvainis (January 19, 1944 – June 2, 2020) was a Lithuanian actor.
Movies22
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
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Movie6.4DramaFamilyLittle Inga considers herself pretty and is pampered by her mother and other children in her housing block, until a new boy with questionable habits arrives and calls her ugly to her face.
Movie6.2HistoryDramaWhen a widowed fisherman moves in with his brother and sister-in-law to escape the collapsing Nazi forces, he finds himself caught up, like Lithuania itself, in perilous questions of collaboration and occupation, resistance and escape.
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.
Movie6.0FamilyDramaA young girl is looking for her long lost father while visiting Riga during winter vacations.
Movie6.4FantasyMusicA former angel tires of singing Hosannah, and is now an impish devil condemned to live on Earth. From his home in a windmill, he pursues love and happiness in a hilarious and sometimes tragic turmoil that affects the whole countryside.
Movie6.3DramaArūnas, an 18 year old high-school graduate from the port town, is going through a crisis. He is stressed by the school routine. At home, his father bores Arūnas with his constant recollections about fighting in an antifascist guerrilla squad, while his mother unexpectedly turns back to her old dream of becoming an artist and decides to leave the house, taking her younger son Saulius with her. His father ends up in hospital, because of a grenade fragment lodged in his spine since the war. Arūnas is surrounded by the betrayal of friends.
Movie5.8DramaThe attempted coup of Estonia on Dec. 1, 1924, conducted by Comintern, staged by the Soviet Communists, failed and resulted in many lost lives on both sides. The Communists were forced underground.
Movie6.5DramaFamilyIn his dreams little Tomas escapes from his every day live to experience a lot of thrilling and exciting adventures.
Movie6.8ComedyMarius, a successful but unhappy husband, and his brother Jovitas, a feckless failure scorned by his wife Nomeda, who just so happens to be Marius’s longtime mistress—plan to confess Nomeda’s pregnancy by Marius at Christmas dinner. Their scheme unravels when their father Kazimieras shocks everyone by announcing his own divorce after fifty years, fearing his wife Alma has been unfaithful.
Movie4.7DramaMysteryA classic mystery based on "The Face in the Target" story by G.K. Chesterton.
Movie5.0RomanceDramaIskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.
Movie8.0CrimeMysteryAs the classic rightly noted, it is customary to treat the diseases of wealthy people with respect. Only a heart transplant can save the dying life of a millionaire Ferfax. In search of a suitable donor for his best client, Dr. Jones makes a series of killings. But he still does not know what reward awaits him for the services rendered ...
Movie4.3DramaWarSummer, 1944. A military airbase near the very front-line. A young soviet pilot Sergey makes his first practice flight. In the course of this flight he hears a call for help on the radio from Russian pilots, having an unequal air combat with superior forces of the enemy. Sergey rushes to their rescue. His plane gets shut down, and he is taken prisoner. Soon he is taken to a special flight school, where future German aces are prepared and Russian pilots at the wheel of captured Russian aircrafts are used as living targets. Nobody wants to put up with such situation, and they prepare an escape.
MovieDramaAdventureGermany in the thirties. Soviet spy Yaroslava Soboleva (aka Sophie Weinert) manages to destroy stocks of a new type of bacteriological weapon at the cost of her own life
Movie7.2DramaHistorySoviet Lithuania in 1972. A young theatre actress is trying to make a difference and tell the forbidden story of repression in a play.
Movie10.0DramaA talented blues player borrows some money to produce his first record. Not being able to return the money, the saxophonist decides to run away. The pawnbroker fraudulently coaxes his saxophone from him. The saxophonist meets a young woman under unusual circumstances.
Movie6.0DramaHistorySteponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.
Movie6.8ComedyA family who call themselves true patriots of Lithuania is preparing for a special celebration - their son's send-off to the volunteer army. The father is the happiest about his son's choice, as he divides people into only two groups: patriots and traitors to the state. But as the farewell approaches, the joy is replaced by increasing tension, until finally, hidden emotions erupt. Conflicts of values come to the surface, and the attempts of the household to prove their devotion to their homeland begin to teeter on the edge of the absurd. In the end, it turns out that the true patriots are not those who speak loudly of their love for their country.
MovieComedyFamilyA scrap metal collection drive is taking place at a school in Vilnius. This ambition, the same characters, the same place of action link all three novellas of "Merry Stories" - jokes, anecdotes.
Movie6.0WarHistoryThe plot centers on the people who began to form underground groups from the very first days of the occupation of Minsk: oil engineer Isa Kazinets, soldier Ivan Kabushkin, student journalist Vladimir Omelianuk, medical professor Yevgeny Klumov, party and Soviet worker Sergey Blagorazumov, and others. Their main weapon was their hatred of the occupiers. Soon, the underground fighters managed to establish contact with the partisans, and they began to plan joint operations.
Movie10.0RomanceFantasyA young man meets a woman on Christmas Eve. She notices his rich gift of imagination and encourages him to remember his unfulfilled dreams and dreams. To fulfill their desires, they come up with an exciting game in which they easily involve lovely women - the heroines of the sweetest flights of a modest young man...
Series7
TVMysteryThe film is based on Gilbert Keith Chesterton's short stories. Father Brown investigates the murder of a bodyguard of industrial magnate Izaokas Hukas.
TV6.4War & PoliticsDramaFrom 1917 to the end of the 1980s, Soviet border guards are stationed on the territory of the USSR from the Far East to the western borders.
TVDrama
TV7.2Action & AdventureDramaYoung millionaire Francis Morgan and his bankrupt distant relative Henry Morgan set off in search of an ancient treasure hidden by their distant pirate ancestor. But the journey becomes even more interesting when the charming Leoncia decides to join them, captivating both young men with her charms.
TV9.0Mystery1932. Ural, city of Krasnouralsk. The power plant has been sabotaged. The turbine is out of order. Having put the guards to sleep, someone poured sand into the turbine oil. In Moscow, the leadership of the OGPU received a secret cipher. From it it becomes known about the conspiracy of German intelligence against the USSR. Its main purpose — subversive actions in Soviet power plants. Special attention is paid to the Urals and the Dnieper under construction. Diversion in Krasnosilske — link in this chain. In Krasnotalsk sent a special agent of the OGPU Viktor Sergeevich Lartsev.
TVWar & PoliticsDramaThe film is based on real events described in the documentary novel by Soviet writer Ivan Novikov, Ruins Shoot Point Blank, dedicated to the heroes of the Minsk underground during the WWII.
TVAction & AdventureA musical miniseries based on Jack London novels.