Kostas Smoriginas

Acting

Kostas Smoriginas

Born 1953-04-22 · Kaunas, Lithuania

Acting credits

No artwork available
6.0

The sailor Audrius comes ashore for the last time in his life. The story unfolds through Audrius’ journey and his many encounters over the weekend as autumn turns to winter. He is driven by a severe lack of time. Inadequate actions and reactions make sense when we find out his secret: he’s dying of Leukemia. During his grandmother’s birthday in her countryside village, surrounded by his family and after reassuring his son, he makes a final attempt to find resolve and peace. Farewell is a moving universal tale, uplifting and heart warming, verbally laconic and visually rich. It is a clear-cut story of the human spirit, which is both relentless and immortal.

Farewell

2010

The Devil's Seed poster
10.0

In the Lithuanian village of Lietuvos, a farmer brings his sheltered nephew, Joni, to the rich Bani. By biting the prospective host's hand, the teenager gains the nickname of "the devil's seed."

The Devil's Seed

1979

The Eternal Light poster
9.0

Lithuanian countryside in the 1950s. People live with mixed memories of an independent Lithuania, no one believes in the myths of a future Soviet Lithuania, but everyone clings tenaciously, out of inner inertia, to the opportunities offered by even the smallest personal farm. This is a film that subtly tells the story of love and the beginnings of a peaceful life in the countryside: the surveyor is tormented by Pranė, who has fallen in love with him unrequitedly, Amilia, who has fallen in love with Zigmas, but is married to the surveyor, Anicetas, the village philosopher, Bernasius, knows it all: if there is an eternal darkness, there is also an eternal light...

The Eternal Light

1989

No artwork available
NR

A play based on V. Eliseeva's novel "And It Was Like This..."

The Square

1980

A Streetcar Named Desire poster
NR

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

A Streetcar Named Desire

1987

Chameleon Games poster
4.0

Paris, 1955. Fraudster Georges de Valera, hiding from the police, with the help of a correspondent for the reactionary newspaper Sibilo, poses as Minister Dubov, who allegedly escaped from the Soviet Union. Sibilo's daughter explains to Georges the purpose of the planned action: to slander progressive journalists with the help of the false Dubov. De Valera, not wanting to become a participant in the provocation, goes into hiding. But instead they find another candidate for the role of Dubov...

Chameleon Games

1987

Loss poster
7.3

A mentally ill young woman Valda convinces herself that a boy growing up in an orphanage is her child. Following the footsteps of a thousands Lithuanians, she immigrates to Ireland to earn money to save him. "Loss" portrays the beauty and tragedy of the human heart.

Loss

2008

Fact poster
5.7

Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a few survivors, the testimony of villagers, and some of the Germans responsible for the killing, the film gradually reconstructs the event and its context.

Fact

1981

My Mother Gave Birth to Me Happy... poster
NR

The film takes place in 1944 in a Moldovan village that had just been liberated by the Soviet Army. A young teacher creates a school pioneer organization. He is opposed by the school principal, who is hiding a fascist agent. With the help of a young teacher and his students, police officers manage to neutralize the criminal.

My Mother Gave Birth to Me Happy...

1981

Whisper of Sin poster
5.5

A nearly-suicidal, young woman visits a psychotherapist. She is in love with a priest, and the diagnosis of her husband's mental illness leaves no hope. The psychotherapist, in her attempts to resolve the amassed difficulties, seemingly begins to duplicate the life stages and behavioral patterns of her patient. A script for this film is based on motifs from the best-seller, scandalous novel, Witch and Rain, by female author, Jurga Ivanauskaite. By choosing a priest as the main role for a love story, the author broke an existing societal taboo. Faith, Love and Hope form the trilogy by the authors of this screenplay. Love stands as the grandest of the three.

Whisper of Sin

2007

The Coincidence of Circumstance poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Coincidence of Circumstance

1988

Ticket to the Taj Mahal poster
4.0

A feature film based on the short story "Fabijonas" by R. Šavelis.

Ticket to the Taj Mahal

1991

Walnut Bread poster
6.7

In 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.

Walnut Bread

1977

Parade poster
7.0

Miglė, who married when she was very young, has for 26 years been divorced from her ex-husband who one day calls her and asks for a favour. He has found that it would be a good time to get married again after the death of his mother. But there is a small problem: their divorce is valid only in the eyes of the law, because a Catholic marriage cannot be divorced. It can, however, be annulled. All that needs to be done is to complete an application and give the “Catholic court” a good reason. But she does not know in what kind of absurd situations she is about to find herself in.

Parade

2023

When the Oaks Were Falling poster
8.5

A faithful adaptation of the story of famous Lithuanian author Baltusis both in subject and artistic presentation. Three brothers Laurynas, Stanislovas and Antanas fall in love with one woman Kazyte and dramatic events make all three brothers go to jail for homicide, while she lives alone on their land.

When the Oaks Were Falling

1978

No artwork available
2.5

No synopsis available yet.

Dark Night

2004

The Beast Rising from the Sea poster
8.0

Based on a novel by Evgeny Zamyatin. In 1920s Petrograd, childless couple Trofim and his wife Sofya adopt their late neighbor’s daughter, thirteen-year-old Ganka, only for Ganka to begin a scandalous affair with her foster father. When Sofya’s despair over the incest drives her to murder Ganka with an axe and conceal the body during a flood, Trofim reports her “missing” to the police, who never recover the corpse. Sofya later becomes pregnant, confesses to the killing, and Trofim, moved by love and guilt, offers to take the blame, though the skeptical investigator doubts any crime occurred.

The Beast Rising from the Sea

1992

Journey to Paradise poster
6.3

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

1981

Christmas. Uncensored poster
3.7

Nowadays Lithuania, the country with strong traditions of Catholicism and society's negative attitude to minorities (homophobia). The tragicomedy is built through the destiny of a young woman Anna, whose secret lights out during the Christmas Eve and it immediatelly erupts an avalanche of dark events, connecting each family member. The question - what would happen, if... - remains. They had a choice to avoid this fatal trip, BUT it doesn't mean nothing has happened.

Christmas. Uncensored

2012

I'm Sorry poster
6.3

Pranas, now a celebrity singer, returns to his homeland from a big city. He is greeted at the airport and driven to his native village by a childhood friend Jonas, who works there as a doctor.

I'm Sorry

1982

I'll Not Become a Gangster, Dear poster
8.0

A criminal story based on the novels by O. Henry.

I'll Not Become a Gangster, Dear

1978

Time of the Full Moon poster
7.0

In 16th century Lithuania, where the plague is raging, a fanatical Jesuit comes to eradicate paganism. The fanatic begins his activity, entering into a struggle with everything that he considers a pagan deviation from the true faith. Especially he is alarmed by Pima, the daughter of a local priest who does not intend to hide her adherence to pagan rituals. But the fight takes a completely unexpected shade: the hero realizes that he is obsessed with passion and can not resist the temptation…

Time of the Full Moon

1988

Lost Farmland poster
NR

The 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.

Lost Farmland

1976

His Wife's Confession poster
9.0

A film about the psychological crisis of a woman in her 40s as she tries to create the illusion of love - looking for herself in love and love in herself.

His Wife's Confession

1983