
Acting
Arvydas Dapšys
Born 1960-04-12 · Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR
Born in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR. Lithuanian and Soviet theater and film actor, theater director and teacher. In 1982 he graduated from the acting department of the Lithuanian State Conservatory. In 1982-1990 - actor of the State Academic Drama Theater of the Lithuanian SSR. Since 1990 - actor of the Vilnius Small Theater. Teaches at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater.
Acting credits
5.0End of summer. Danielius (in mid 30s) makes a return to his hometown to sell his parents' flat. Having nowhere to rush, he reconnects with people and the town that's no longer his. He is confronted with a quiet sense of loneliness.
The Visitor
2025
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
NRIn an academic committee where student performances are judged, a newcomer lecturer must decide: confront the power she once respected or stay silent to belong.
The Evaluation
2025
6.8An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There she meets a young girl named Rivkah, a fellow captive in the camp. As Rivkah and Hannah struggle to survive in the face of daily atrocities, they form an unbreakable bond.
The Devil's Arithmetic
1999
7.029-year-old Ilona and her boyfriend have just moved into a new apartment in a block of flats. When the building’s renovation begins soon afterwards and she befriends Oleg, one of the Ukrainian construction workers, her idyllic notions of a fulfilling life as she approaches thirty start to crumble, like the old plaster on the walls.
Renovation
2025
NRA talkative taxi driver roams the nightly streets. An apathetic girl enters his car. The two don't seem to connect, until she asks to make a stop with intent to cause harm upon someone. Does their shared trip even have a destination?
Through Gloom
2022
Two Dutch dopes travel to an East European country to try their holiday luck there for a change. After the gruff customs officer in a grey uniform, a golden opportunity awaits them. A taciturn, reserved beauty is waiting for someone with a sign saying ‘Mr. Peterson’. Elated, Peter and Sjon get in the car with her. The trip was ‘all-inclusive’, wasn’t it?
All Inclusive
2011
NRA wealthy, hard-working farmer has an only son. Immersed in the bohemian lifestyle of the capital, he lives a carefree life—painting pictures when he feels like it, partying when he feels like it, with girls falling into his bed one after another. It's hard to even remember their names. When life is so fun, who would dream of taking over their father's land and driving a tractor? But one day, life is turned upside down. With his head bowed, the prodigal son returns to his father.
The Millionaire’s Anniversary
2026
6.5A desperate hunger strike meant to capture global media attention slowly unravels into a hilariously bleak showdown between ambition, reality, and an empty stomach.
Hunger Strike Breakfast
2026
5.3A grown-up son goes on a countryside trip with his ageing parents in the hopes of reigniting the relationship, but there is nothing left to reignite. This story of familial dysfunction is set against the picturesque backdrop of a dacha community (instantly recognisable to every post-Soviet native), rendered by Vytautas Katkas with irony and a rare sympathy for his hapless subjects.
Community Gardens
2019
6.0Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.
Flight Over the Atlantic
1984
5.3Bumbling country bumpkin Kęstas and his urbane brother Vincas unexpectedly inherit five million dollars each, but only if they complete their late uncle’s bizarre final wishes. Under the watchful eye of notary’s daughter Justė, the pair must pull off a series of outlandish tasks - from staging their uncle’s funeral to stealing apples, selling potatoes, and even climbing inside a cow’s pancake - before they can claim the fortune - and, perhaps, discover what it truly means to be brothers.
The Millionaire's Legacy
2023
6.7The world's hardest - and weirdest - heavy metal band Impaled Rektum is serving their sentence in Norway's nicest prison. They receive word that guitarist Lotvonen's parents' reindeer herding farm is about to come under the hammer. It will take a big gig and big money to save the farm. A breakout ensues and a trip to the world's biggest heavy festival, Wacken in northern Germany begins. The higher the target, the bigger the obstacles. This is what the boys will experience on their epic journey to the main stage of Wacken - every metalhead's heaven.
Heavier Trip
2024
7.7The film portrays Lukša's attempts, in trips to western Europe, to gain support for the armed anti-Soviet resistance (known as the Forest Brothers), whose fortunes in a guerrilla war against Soviet authorities were waning, largely due to widespread infiltration and harsh crackdowns by the NKVD.
Utterly Alone
2004
6.7An earthquake destroys a Russian Nuclear Power plant.
Nature Unleashed: Earthquake
2005
4.5In a first‐ever national “Jealousy Games,” three teams - a group of friends, a family with children and an elderly couple - compete to vacation so lavishly that the entire country envies them and win a huge cash prize. But their attempts to spark envy in Palanga, Šventoji and Nida are constantly held back by mishaps and a relentless “jealousy expert“.
Poilsiautojai: pavydo žaidynės
2017
5.1The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the Vatican" before ascending to the papal throne to usher Catholicism into the 21st century. Born in Poland and forced to carry on following the untimely death of his family, Karol Wojtyla endured both personal hardships and the rape of his homeland by the Third Reich to spread the word of God through the Catholic Church. Later, as Pope John Paul II, Wojtyla was beloved by millions of Catholics worldwide. From the sexual-abuse scandal that shook the American Catholic Church in the later-20th century to the murder of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and the near-fatal assassination attempt made on his own life, Pope John Paul II endured to bridge the gap between various faiths until his death resulting from Parkinson's disease in April of 2005.
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
2006
NRThe film combines three short stories: Der Mond, "Tristan und Isolde" and "Aida". The themes of these short stories are sin, duty and love.
Tristan and Isolde. Three Stories About...
1999
6.8In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beam stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jew Chief of Police Gens uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.
Ghetto
2006
7.4An outrageous crime - action - comedy examining corruption and greed in Lithuanian politics.
Zero III
2017
This film is the story of Mr Faust, who has lost everything there is to lose, as he bids an unfortunate farewell to life, his feelings for his saviour Cloud, and his determination to regain his cursed body and reclaim his soul.
Debesėlis ir Faustas
2005
NRThe 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
1981
8.0A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children wilingly recite his verses from 'To My Soviet Motherland', written under pressure to prase Uncle Lenin. Eventually, an unforgotten friend shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon's underground bunker.
The Poet
2022
9.0A trio of unemployed homeland-hating emigrants come back to Lithuania for holiday, where by accident, they become entangled in fake businessmen roles and discover their motherland again.
ReEmigrants
2022
