Antanas Šurna
Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
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.
Defiance
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Atžalos
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Mano mylimas prieše
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Giminės ir...
A two part mini-series based on Jonas Avyžius novels.
Chameleon
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Pelėkautai
The film is based on the novel of the same name by P. Kuusberg and tells about the fate of former classmates, high school students, during the Second World War and in the post-war period.
Raindrops
This 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.
Men Summer
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.
Nobody Wanted to Die
A romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army
Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda
Tragic pages in the history of the formation of the independent Lithuanian state in 1918-20.
Wounds of Our Land
Lithuania, 1977. Memories of childhood, adolescence, and first love in a small provincial town, shown through complexity of human relations at this periodical film.
Walnut Bread
About the everyday life of lumberjacks who seek solace in vodka, which becomes the cause of many troubles and misfortunes. But the old lumberjacks have their own philosophy and their own outlook on life....
Lumberjacks
The 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...
Benjaminas Kordušas
A story about an events occurred in Belarus in 1944 during the WWII.
Fire
Based 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.
Little Sins
The rich widow Marta Anker, owner of a renowned trading company, loves the poor fisherman Ansą Balčiai. The locals keep the ongoings under close watch.
Journey to Paradise
A 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.
State Border: Vol. 7. Salty Wind
Historical epic about the uprising of the Prussians agains the Teutonic crusaders.
Northern Crusades
About the last days of the great Niko Pirosmanishvili, who died alone. And his only interlocutors were the heroes of the paintings...