
Juozas Rigertas
Acting
Known For

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".
Fuse

Niyole, a Red Army spy is sent behind the enemy lines in order to hunt German general.
A Secret Walk in the Woods

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

Two episodes about the relationship between men and women in the Lithuanian Soviet era. In the first one, Laima decides to leave her alcoholic husband and run away with priest Vaisieta. In the second one, long-distance driver Bronius decides to change his life after years of a careless lifestyle.
Adult Games

A story about an events occurred in Belarus in 1944 during the WWII.
Fire

Evolving grim drama of love and wealth. The action takes you to the pre-war and shows the different social strata in rural life, everyday life, passions.
Autumn Is Coming to the Woods

In 1943, Alex, who recently returned to the city of Kaunas, tries to join the anti-Nazi resistance, but is captured and imprisoned. He soon starts planning his escape.
Steps in the Night

Two stories about the relationships between the peasants and the noblemen in a Lithuanian village during the period of feudalism.
Stone on Stone

The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Crimea, the actors of the drama theater of the city of Simferopol entered the underground group Sokol. The activities of the underground members were diverse: they put up leaflets with information from Soviet Information Bureau, compiled maps showing the strategic objects of the enemy, and supplied the partisans with medicines. On April 10, 1944, 3 days before the liberation of Simferopol, the underground members died from enemy bullets — they were shot on the outskirts of the city.
They Were Actors

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov.
Mainai

Tele play about scientists.
The Limit of Truth

A lithuanian village just after the end of the second World War: Neither German nor Russian its inhabitants must, despite their wounds, find new craft to dream of a better future ahead of them.
Kanonada

Vito-Vilūnas' activities in Moscow and interwar Lithuania, the fight against the Nazis and his death in 1942.
Call It by Its Real Name

The fraud of officials, the thirst for money and a good life, their immorality is compared with the decency of the intelligentsia, intrigue and fear of losing everything when power changes; comical situations are created, but it seems that you don’t have to believe that something will change, because the office of an official changes decent people too....