Date of birth: 1924-04-28
Place of birth: Kaunas, Lithuania
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Donatas Banionis, Донатас Банёнис, Донатас Юозович Банионис, Донатас Банионис, D. Banionis

Donatas Banionis (28 April 1924 – 4 September 2014) was a Lithuanian actor. He is best known for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's Solaris as Kris Kelvin. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania.

2017-11-04
Oscar winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto weaves man-made and natural sounds together in his works. Hi

2007-01-01
The astronaut Chris Kelvin receives a visit from a woman who is a double of his dead wife. This stor

1972-03-20
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death

1969-12-23
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped

1970-12-15
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their

1988-03-19
In one of the developing countries, local and Soviet geologists discovered a tantalum ore deposit. H

1979-01-01
A mostly comical tale of all-powerful and wealthy Bavarian prince adventures that started when princ

1966-05-22
An insurance agent who moonlights as a car thief steals cars various crooks and never from the commo

1968-05-22
A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia.

1998-01-01
A documentary film about Adomas Mickevičius.
1988-06-02
Soviet Armenian adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles".

1991-01-17
Soviet horror movie based on the play by the writer Vyacheslav Adamchik Raisa Gromyko. The film take

1947-01-01
The poor Melnik family lives in Zarasai region. Elder Mary parents struggle to send Marry to school
1996-03-01
The film tells of faithful devotion to spiritual ideals. It is based on Riga St. Anna Stocken's Life

1991-06-06
A crime story which take action in Riga Sea Port.

1986-03-14
The former director of a large deli Pavel Shorokhov, having returned from prison and not received th

1978-01-09
America’s Wild West of the last third of the 19th century. Thousands of people rushed here in pursui

1968-12-06
Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works

1977-02-24
In a Russian POW camp, four Germans determined to end WWII agree to pose as Red Army soldiers. Are t

2013-02-07
The revolution in Lithuania has already started, but no one knows who announced it and who is leadin

1966-12-06
Based on the classic novella, "Le petit prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

1979-11-01
A man who abandoned his wife and son 20 years ago is forced to deal with the consequences.

1979-01-29
A political conspiracy is brewing in an unnamed Latin American country. Everything is in play: black
2006-01-01
They only wanted to challenge the unjust government. But once they did...they had no way back. When

1966-04-18
The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuan

1971-09-15
As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in

1973-04-29
1942, Polar region. The Germans are preparing to capture Murmansk. The submarine Sch-721 is consider

1960-03-06
In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds, lives A

1976-10-14
Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all

1982-11-01
For thirty years after the wedding, the war separated Jurgis and Morata. Now he is a famous surgeon,

1991-01-01
When a young man wants to marry a poor girl, her cousin envies her very much. She even makes everybo

1979-01-01
Drama about the period of F. Dzerzhinsky's activity in 1902-1905, when he, having escaped from the V

1990-05-01
The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hall

2004-12-31
The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tell

1978-09-13
A story of a Soviet spy working in France during WWII.

1990-06-04
A detective goes undercover in a small Russian town.

2000-03-08
The first feature of Lithuanian Valdas Navasaitis is a drama which unravels the hopeless 1970s, when

1975-12-15
A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky t

1987-04-13
The crew of the new American strategic missile submarine "Archelon" is struck by an unknown virus. T

1986-02-04
Tele play about scientists.

2005-05-30
Based on the play “Impossible Meeting” by P. Barz.
2002-01-01
The last day of the year ends. At the Christmas market, where a lot of people were still bustling du

1963-12-29
An academic heads to Leningrad to attend the funeral of an old friend.

1977-12-01
Two cash collectors are found burned with their car but the bag is missing. Two detectives - Aleksan

1980-12-29
A young boy Andrius learns a magic words which open a door to another world.

1986-02-22
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surro

1979-12-01
Discovery of gold by a group of tough people in the far Northeast of Russia.

1994-01-01
A kind nobleman named Zavalnya lives in the Polotsk region. His estate stands at a crossroads, so he

1982-01-02
Biopic about Niccolo Paganini. He receives training from his father in early childhood. The best tea

1967-02-01
In ancient times of famine and Tatar raids, the satirist Yuras Bratchik appears to the people in the

1988-05-16
On the night of June 22, 1941, a fire breaks out on a German passenger ship. The Soviet tanker "Casp

1991-01-03
A terrible tragedy occurs in the family of a famous general: one of his daughters is killed. The inv

1982-03-21
A middle-aged jeweler is falling in love with a glorious woman. She, raising a son alone, is in no h

1989-01-29
The story of Vera Lenz, a young and very attractive woman who is the daughter of a pastor and comes

2012-04-04
Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to the

1973-06-22
This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied biochemistry. Th

1972-04-02

1964-12-27
An eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet, making fun of chauvinism and petty

2004-12-31
The second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Th

1982-12-05
Pranas, now a celebrity singer, returns to his homeland from a big city. He is greeted at the airpor

1977-02-07
A movie based on Julian Semyonov's novel "A Bomb for the Chairman". A West German concern is conduct
1971-01-01
The TV movie is based on several dramatic episodes from the life of the red diplomat Leonid Krasin.

1981-06-04
Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounde

1980-05-12
A young biophysicist, dreaming of spiritual and physical immortality, makes an experiment on himself

2011-01-01
A romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russ

1972-07-13
Captain Jack, this is actually an ordinary girl, she is an informal leader among the boys, loves the

2004-01-01