Gediminas Girdvainis

Acting

Gediminas Girdvainis

Born 1944-01-19 · Kretinga, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]

Gediminas Girdvainis (January 19, 1944 – June 2, 2020) was a Lithuanian actor.

Acting credits

Defiance poster
6.8

Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.

Defiance

2008

Ask the Dead About the Price of Death poster
5.8

The attempted coup of Estonia on Dec. 1, 1924, conducted by Comintern, staged by the Soviet Communists, failed and resulted in many lost lives on both sides. The Communists were forced underground.

Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

1977

The Private Life of Santa Claus poster
NR

It's a story about actor who, in in addition to his day job at the theater, is earning an extra money playing Sant Claus in kindergartens during the Xmas period.

The Private Life of Santa Claus

1982

The Beauty poster
6.4

Little Inga considers herself pretty and is pampered by her mother and other children in her housing block, until a new boy with questionable habits arrives and calls her ugly to her face.

The Beauty

1969

Autumn Is Coming to the Woods poster
4.3

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

1989

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

Dalia poster
NR

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

Dalia

1985

Unfamiliar Case poster
6.0

A young girl is looking for her long lost father while visiting Riga during winter vacations.

Unfamiliar Case

1985

A Small Confession poster
6.3

Arūnas, an 18 year old high-school graduate from the port town, is going through a crisis. He is stressed by the school routine. At home, his father bores Arūnas with his constant recollections about fighting in an antifascist guerrilla squad, while his mother unexpectedly turns back to her old dream of becoming an artist and decides to leave the house, taking her younger son Saulius with her. His father ends up in hospital, because of a grenade fragment lodged in his spine since the war. Arūnas is surrounded by the betrayal of friends.

A Small Confession

1971

The Face in the Target poster
4.7

A classic mystery based on "The Face in the Target" story by G.K. Chesterton.

The Face in the Target

1978

Ice Kiss poster
5.0

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

Ice Kiss

2008

Merry Stories poster
NR

A scrap metal collection drive is taking place at a school in Vilnius. This ambition, the same characters, the same place of action link all three novellas of "Merry Stories" - jokes, anecdotes.

Merry Stories

1973

Nightbird poster
6.5

In his dreams little Tomas escapes from his every day live to experience a lot of thrilling and exciting adventures.

Nightbird

1974

Feelings poster
6.2

When a widowed fisherman moves in with his brother and sister-in-law to escape the collapsing Nazi forces, he finds himself caught up, like Lithuania itself, in perilous questions of collaboration and occupation, resistance and escape.

Feelings

1968

Flight Over the Atlantic poster
6.0

Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.

Flight Over the Atlantic

1984

Liars poster
6.8

Marius, a successful but unhappy husband, and his brother Jovitas, a feckless failure scorned by his wife Nomeda, who just so happens to be Marius’s longtime mistress—plan to confess Nomeda’s pregnancy by Marius at Christmas dinner. Their scheme unravels when their father Kazimieras shocks everyone by announcing his own divorce after fifty years, fearing his wife Alma has been unfaithful.

Liars

2018

Adventures of Kalle the Detective poster
6.2

The story is about a boy named Kalle Blomkvist who with his friends solves crimes and also plays the battle between the red rose and the white rose with his rival friends

Adventures of Kalle the Detective

1976

A Strong Feeling poster
NR

The performance is based on the play of the same name by Ilya Ilf, and Yevgeny Petrov.

A Strong Feeling

1981

Patriots poster
6.8

A family who call themselves true patriots of Lithuania is preparing for a special celebration - their son's send-off to the volunteer army. The father is the happiest about his son's choice, as he divides people into only two groups: patriots and traitors to the state. But as the farewell approaches, the joy is replaced by increasing tension, until finally, hidden emotions erupt. Conflicts of values come to the surface, and the attempts of the household to prove their devotion to their homeland begin to teeter on the edge of the absurd. In the end, it turns out that the true patriots are not those who speak loudly of their love for their country.

Patriots

2016

Unicorn Hunt poster
4.3

Summer, 1944. A military airbase near the very front-line. A young soviet pilot Sergey makes his first practice flight. In the course of this flight he hears a call for help on the radio from Russian pilots, having an unequal air combat with superior forces of the enemy. Sergey rushes to their rescue. His plane gets shut down, and he is taken prisoner. Soon he is taken to a special flight school, where future German aces are prepared and Russian pilots at the wheel of captured Russian aircrafts are used as living targets. Nobody wants to put up with such situation, and they prepare an escape.

Unicorn Hunt

1990

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

SexStory poster
10.0

A young man meets a woman on Christmas Eve. She notices his rich gift of imagination and encourages him to remember his unfulfilled dreams and dreams. To fulfill their desires, they come up with an exciting game in which they easily involve lovely women - the heroines of the sweetest flights of a modest young man...

SexStory

1991

No artwork available
8.0

Lunar Lithuania is a 1998 drama film written by Saulius Saltenis and directed by Gytis Luksas.

Lunar Lithuania

1997

Lucky Unlucky Man poster
8.0

Lucky unlucky man from the little village is seeking happiness.

Lucky Unlucky Man

1973