Gediminas Girdvainis

Acting

Gediminas Girdvainis

Born — Died

1944-01-19 — 2020-06-02

Place of birth

Kretinga, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

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

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 6 titles

The Year of the Dog poster
3.9

Former criminal Sergei meets Vera - an elderly unhappy woman who lives in a dormitory. After Sergei commits another crime, they run together and along the way they accidentally get into a zone contaminated by radiation. Sergei decides to stay there, but Vera does not leave him. At that moment three looters come to the territory.

The Year of the Dog

1994

It Also Snows in Paradise poster
10.0

A talented blues player borrows some money to produce his first record. Not being able to return the money, the saxophonist decides to run away. The pawnbroker fraudulently coaxes his saxophone from him. The saxophonist meets a young woman under unusual circumstances.

It Also Snows in Paradise

1994

Unicorn Hunt poster
4.2

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

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

Smile Upon Us, Lord poster
NR

Will history be able to triumph, and misfortune and loss turn into joy? Everything is possible in the theater.

Smile Upon Us, Lord

1994

1980s · 22 titles

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

Love For Your Neighbor poster
3.5

The film consists of two short stories: "Monument" and "Love for Neighbor".

Love For Your Neighbor

1988

Unfamiliar Case poster
6.0

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

Unfamiliar Case

1985

Rich Man, Poor Man... poster
4.8

An examination of the trials and tribulations of the Jordache family, from the period following World War II to the late 1960s.

Rich Man, Poor Man...

1982

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 End of Eternity poster
5.9

Directed by Andrei Yermash, and written by Isaac Asimov, Budimir Metalnikov, and Andrei Yermash, «Konets vechnosti» is a 1987 Science Fiction film, starring Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Sergei Yursky, Gediminas Girdvainis and Boris Ivanov.

The End of Eternity

1987

Fairfax's Millions poster
8.0

As the classic rightly noted, it is customary to treat the diseases of wealthy people with respect. Only a heart transplant can save the dying life of a millionaire Ferfax. In search of a suitable donor for his best client, Dr. Jones makes a series of killings. But he still does not know what reward awaits him for the services rendered ...

Fairfax's Millions

1980

Cargo With No Markings poster
4.7

The assistant captain of a foreign merchant ship, Chief, contacts an international drug cartel. He agrees to transport a large shipment of drugs in unmarked containers. The markings will be added later, only at the shipper's request. Unexpectedly, the ship has to call at a Soviet port to refuel.

Cargo With No Markings

1984

Moon Rainbow poster
5.0

After a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions?

Moon Rainbow

1983

Stories About Love poster
NR

A television film based on the short stories by Anton Chekhov: “On the Road,” “In Autumn,” and “In Exile.” Part one of a two-part series; the second part is “A Love Story”

Stories About Love

1981

Flight Over the Atlantic poster
6.0

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

Flight Over the Atlantic

1984

This Fantastic World 8 poster
9.5

Fragments of the stories were dramatized: R. Bradbury “I Sing About the Mechanical Body” (about the work of an electronic grandmother who, having human qualities, gives tenderness to children deprived of maternal affection) and I. Varshavsky “There are no alarming symptoms” about Professor Clarence, who agrees to an operation that deprives him of human emotions.

This Fantastic World 8

1984

Playing Without Trump Cards poster
6.7

A policeman is investigating a murder in a secret research facility.

Playing Without Trump Cards

1981

Attempt on GOELRO poster
6.0

1932. Ural, city of Krasnouralsk. The power plant has been sabotaged. The turbine is out of order. Having put the guards to sleep, someone poured sand into the turbine oil. In Moscow, the leadership of the OGPU received a secret cipher. From it it becomes known about the conspiracy of German intelligence against the USSR. Its main purpose — subversive actions in Soviet power plants. Special attention is paid to the Urals and the Dnieper under construction. Diversion in Krasnosilske — link in this chain. In Krasnotalsk sent a special agent of the OGPU Viktor Sergeevich Lartsev.

Attempt on GOELRO

1986

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

Star Counter poster
NR

Germany in the thirties. Soviet spy Yaroslava Soboleva (aka Sophie Weinert) manages to destroy stocks of a new type of bacteriological weapon at the cost of her own life

Star Counter

1987

Markizas ir piemenaitė poster
NR

At the end of the war, a French plane was shot down by the Germans near the Nemunas River, but the injured pilot Andrė parachuted into a Lithuanian village. Domas, a miller, hides him in his mill, while young Saulė, who was Domas' bride, nurses him. They fall in love, but shortly after, Andrė's squadron mates Arrive. Five years after the end of the war, Saulė is still waiting for the Frenchman, who is said to have died near Nemunas.

Markizas ir piemenaitė

1980

Dalia poster
NR

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

Dalia

1985

King Mindaugas poster
NR

A historical retelling of the first king of Lithuania, King Mindaugas, taking place in the year 1263. The film was initially created in 1981 but was banned by Soviet authorities due to an emphasis on Lithuanian nationalism and ethnic heritage.

King Mindaugas

1984

State Border: Vol. 7. Salty Wind poster
8.6

A group of saboteurs was sent into Estonia in 1959. This group included a local resident who also has his own personal goal: to find the daughter he lost at the end of the war while fleeing abroad.

State Border: Vol. 7. Salty Wind

1988

Petras Kurmelis poster
NR

Petras Kurmelis is a hardworking but tight-fisted peasant, he marries for convenience and wants the bride to bring a good dowry to the house. But marriage does not bring him happiness.

Petras Kurmelis

1986

Parisian Drama poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Parisian Drama

1984

1970s · 18 titles

The Devil's Bride poster
6.4

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

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

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

All Truth About Columbus poster
NR

The film is about the Colombian revolution, about the revolutionaries Pablo and Pedro, the bearers of freedom and the victims of this freedom, about the philosophy of the struggle for freedom.

All Truth About Columbus

1970

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

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

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

Stone on Stone poster
NR

Two stories about the relationships between the peasants and the noblemen in a Lithuanian village during the period of feudalism.

Stone on Stone

1971

Lucky Unlucky Man poster
8.0

Lucky unlucky man from the little village is seeking happiness.

Lucky Unlucky Man

1973

The Life of Beethoven poster
7.0

A biographical film about the life and work of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

The Life of Beethoven

1978

Men Summer poster
9.0

This historical detective story portrays a dramatic life situation in post-war Lithuania. After the Soviets occupied Lithuania, many young men took up arms and went to the woods to resist.

Men Summer

1970

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

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

Smoke and Shorty poster
4.8

A musical movie based on Jack London novels.

Smoke and Shorty

1975

Northern Crusades poster
5.6

Historical epic about the uprising of the Prussians agains the Teutonic crusaders.

Northern Crusades

1972

Attack On The Secret Police poster
7.0

During the 1905 Revolution, secret police arrest a man travelling under the identity of the merchant Karlsons, suspecting that he is in fact a prominent revolutionary. His tense psychological duel with secret police chief Greguss becomes a battle of wits, as each tries to uncover the other’s intentions. Meanwhile, underground revolutionaries devise a daring operation to free their captured comrade.

Attack On The Secret Police

1976

The Ruins Are Firing… poster
6.0

The plot centers on the people who began to form underground groups from the very first days of the occupation of Minsk: oil engineer Isa Kazinets, soldier Ivan Kabushkin, student journalist Vladimir Omelianuk, medical professor Yevgeny Klumov, party and Soviet worker Sergey Blagorazumov, and others. Their main weapon was their hatred of the occupiers. Soon, the underground fighters managed to establish contact with the partisans, and they began to plan joint operations.

The Ruins Are Firing…

1971

1960s · 3 titles

Series credits

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Atžalos

1998

Juodosios našlės poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Juodosios našlės

2016

State Border poster
6.4

From 1917 to the end of the 1980s, Soviet border guards are stationed on the territory of the USSR from the Far East to the western borders.

State Border

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dapkai ir Butkai

—

Mano mylimas prieše poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mano mylimas prieše

2010

Giminės ir... poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Giminės ir...

2001

The Face in the Target poster
NR

The film is based on Gilbert Keith Chesterton's short stories. Father Brown investigates the murder of a bodyguard of industrial magnate Izaokas Hukas.

The Face in the Target

1978

Attempt on GOELRO poster
9.0

1932. Ural, city of Krasnouralsk. The power plant has been sabotaged. The turbine is out of order. Having put the guards to sleep, someone poured sand into the turbine oil. In Moscow, the leadership of the OGPU received a secret cipher. From it it becomes known about the conspiracy of German intelligence against the USSR. Its main purpose — subversive actions in Soviet power plants. Special attention is paid to the Urals and the Dnieper under construction. Diversion in Krasnosilske — link in this chain. In Krasnotalsk sent a special agent of the OGPU Viktor Sergeevich Lartsev.

Attempt on GOELRO

1986

The Hearts of Three poster
6.8

Young millionaire Francis Morgan and his bankrupt distant relative Henry Morgan set off in search of an ancient treasure hidden by their distant pirate ancestor. But the journey becomes even more interesting when the charming Leoncia decides to join them, captivating both young men with her charms.

The Hearts of Three

1992

The Ruins Are Firing… poster
NR

The film is based on real events described in the documentary novel by Soviet writer Ivan Novikov, Ruins Shoot Point Blank, dedicated to the heroes of the Minsk underground during the WWII.

The Ruins Are Firing…

1970

Smoke and Shorty poster
NR

A musical miniseries based on Jack London novels.

Smoke and Shorty

1976