Juozas Meškauskas

Acting

Juozas Meškauskas

Acting credits

Zaldokynka poster
NR

Teleplay based on B. Dauguvietis' works

Zaldokynka

2006

Dalia poster
NR

A musical film based on Balys Sruoga's heroic drama Apyaušrio Dalia.

Dalia

1985

Mainai poster
10.0

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov.

Mainai

1979

The Devil's Bride poster
6.6

A former angel tires of singing Hosannah, and is now an impish devil condemned to live on Earth. From his home in a windmill, he pursues love and happiness in a hilarious and sometimes tragic turmoil that affects the whole countryside.

The Devil's Bride

1974

Earth the Foster-Mother poster
NR

The peasant Juras Tarutis takes part in the struggle for independent Lithuania and in the election campaign for the Sejm, painfully experiencing the fascist coup in 1926. At first, he firmly believes in land reform and only after difficult trials, he become disillusioned with the reform and with the bourgeois system itself.

Earth the Foster-Mother

1977

Patriots poster
NR

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....

Patriots

1980

Lumberjacks poster
NR

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

1982

Mindaugas poster
NR

Teleplay based on Justino Marcinkeviciaus' play.

Mindaugas

1995

The Legenda of the Firemen poster
9.0

A fire suddenly broke out in a town that no longer exists. The zealous firehouse chief sends a brigade of firefighters to the blaze. However, a nasty local bureaucrat refuses to give them water.

The Legenda of the Firemen

1989

Little Sins poster
NR

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

1980

Nine Circles of Fall poster
NR

A film about the famous priest, politician Konstantinas Olšauskas and his love affair with Stanislava Ustjanauskiene, whose murder in the fall of 1928 still remains a mystery...

Nine Circles of Fall

1984

The Process of Giordano Bruno poster
NR

Life of Giordano Bruno, including the infamous trial where he was declared as heretic, and the Inquisition issued a sentence of death.

The Process of Giordano Bruno

1977

The Holiest of All poster
NR

Based on Ion Druță's play of the same name.

The Holiest of All

1977

Raindrops poster
NR

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

1981

Benjaminas Kordušas poster
NR

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

1986

The Day of Retribution poster
NR

Lithuania in the 19th century: While the first railway-road is built from Warsaw to Moscow throughout the country people are still facing slavery and oppression from the elite. A fight between the Robin-Hood-like gang leader Laurynas and the greedy landowner Laurnyas emerges.

The Day of Retribution

1977

Have Mercy on Us poster
NR

1942-1943 Lithuania, Kaunas, German occupation. A young priest Jomantas comes to a new gymnasium to work as a religion teacher. Here he tries to persuade his students out of joining German army.

Have Mercy on Us

1979