
Acting
Valentinas Masalskis
Born
1954-04-11 (72)
Place of birth
Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, USSR
Known for
Acting
Credits
44 titles
Known for
4.5A five part mini-series based on the novel by the same name.
Raudonmedžio Rojus
1980
8.5Based on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II.
Exile
1992
6.6Based on the novel by Romualdas Granauskas, the film is a chronicle of a young man’s shifting relationships as he adjusts rather dramatically to the unfamiliarity of freedom.
Vortex
2009
7.8The story about one man - an artist and an intellectual - who was imprisoned by two brutal regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets. 'The Professor' is a man who lives by his own personal version of the Ten Commandments. After miraculously surviving imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a bit of ironic fate, he writes a memoir of his life, which becomes the target of the Soviet censors. The so-called "freedom" of Communism becomes just as oppressive as the German concentration camp.
Forest of the Gods
2005
5.7Facts 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
8.0WWII. Joined forces of Polish and Russian partisans (despite they are in conflict) stand against German Sturmwind I & II actions.
The Crossing
1988
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
6.0A blue screen informs that war has begun. What will be needed? Collect the men, find guns, or maybe someone will give them. We need a location, a country where the war would take place. No problem, the Colonel is a real pro, he has caused wars to order, or on orders, on multiple occasions in different countries. Now his followers have grown up and caused a war in his country. He doesn’t want to, but he has to fight. He is old and tired of war. He wants to be at the table with a steaming pot of tasty mutton ribs and stare at an innocent TV screen with the news on, and the dressed-up news reporter announces that the war has begun.
The Flood Won’t Come
2020
6.0A blue screen informs that war has begun. What will be needed? Collect the men, find guns, or maybe someone will give them. We need a location, a country where the war would take place. No problem, the Colonel is a real pro, he has caused wars to order, or on orders, on multiple occasions in different countries. Now his followers have grown up and caused a war in his country. He doesn’t want to, but he has to fight. He is old and tired of war. He wants to be at the table with a steaming pot of tasty mutton ribs and stare at an innocent TV screen with the news on, and the dressed-up news reporter announces that the war has begun.
The Flood Won’t Come
2020
4.5With gentle irony, “Cinephilia” unmasks the illusion of film. Characters migrate through the worlds of reality and fantasy, in circumstances that paradoxically have no questions or answers. The two moons of Lars von Trier shine in the night sky, entrancing the main heroes, Roland and Isabel. Roland rents himself a room where he winds up in situations reminiscent of the plots found in Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” or Roman Polański’s “The Tenant”. A guy visits Roland, claiming that they known each other, and offers him a lot of money to film his suicide. There begins a kaleidoscopic sequence of events and random acquaintances. They make the characters wander through the worlds of reality and fantasy, sometimes both at the same time. A dark comedy that tells nine related stories in which the fates of the characters intertwine.
Cinephilia
2021
6.9During the interwar period, a Lithuanian geography professor tries to convince the government to establish a backup state overseas, in order to save their country from ruin. However, the idea is mostly mocked and opposed. Still, there is hope in the secret support from the elderly prime minister, who has become disillusioned with politics.
Nova Lituania
2020
2010s · 5 titles
6.0A provincial school is waiting for an official delegation from the Ministry who is supposed to bring a new bell. But a bell is not what the school needs... Struggling to survive, the institution is currently lacking the two pupils required by governmental quota in order to stay open. Anticipating the arrival of the delegation, the principal tries his best to hide the real number of students to avoid the unavoidable closing down of the school.
The Noisemaker
2014
NRThe revolution in Lithuania has already started, but no one knows who announced it and who is leading it. The action is not taking place somewhere far away, but here in Lithuania and now. The characters of the film themselves turn into creators and shape the further course of events.
The Silent Lithuanian Revolution
2013
5.4Our eternal theme is crime and punishment. In Boris Godunov, the problems of conscience and existential choice are linked to the history of the country. Pushkin says that these things are woven into a mysterious knot or pattern. The choice of each of us is also the choice of our own history. An incorrect individual choice or a karmic mistake can lead to a chain of fatal events. If a person finds himself in power, it can become a problem for the whole people.
Boris Godunov
2011
6.5The film portrays the junction of two individuals: a lonely old man and a young woman, subconsciously joined in a single dream space. The different manifestations of the archetype Anima act as an ally between the unconscious 'self' and the conscious 'I'. Anima, both a Virgin Mary and a whore, expose the intimate conception of women, hidden inside the mind of the lonely man. While, simultaneously appearing in the women's subconsciousness as a mysterious and charming lover, a father figure, a professor or a saint, illuminating her perception of men. Anima, as many archetypes, possess a duality which allows it to have both a positive and negative influence.
Anima Animus
2012
NRThe appearance of a second telephone line at home shakes the closed world of mother, father and daughter.
Waiting for a Call
2012
2000s · 5 titles
6.6Based on the novel by Romualdas Granauskas, the film is a chronicle of a young man’s shifting relationships as he adjusts rather dramatically to the unfamiliarity of freedom.
Vortex
2009
7.8The story about one man - an artist and an intellectual - who was imprisoned by two brutal regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets. 'The Professor' is a man who lives by his own personal version of the Ten Commandments. After miraculously surviving imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a bit of ironic fate, he writes a memoir of his life, which becomes the target of the Soviet censors. The so-called "freedom" of Communism becomes just as oppressive as the German concentration camp.
Forest of the Gods
2005
NRA story about the first childish sin: the first attempt to defeat the enemy, to walk a forbidden road and to revenge.
Crow Lake
2007
7.8A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.
Freedom
2000
NRThe already middle-aged Moneylender tells the story of his love for a young lady, poor but proud.
A Gentle Creature
2005
1990s · 7 titles
8.5Based on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II.
Exile
1992
9.0Grachow, a researcher, is to escort a car to a distant place of the foreign exchange horse Favorite. The driver of Locha drives fast, although he was supposed to not exceed a speed of 30 km per hour. They experience various adventures along the way. Grachow, who drives the car, cannot control the speeding machine, he saves himself at the last moment by jumping out of the cabin. The car with the horse on the platform rolls down to the river ...
Szlachetna krew
1990
7.2Commissioner Maigret's new case. At the rate of his further service in the police.
The Price of Head
1992
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Baimė
1996
6.0During jockey's absence, the authorities decide to send his horse to the stud farm.
Blue Blood
1990
Lunar Lithuania is a 1998 drama film written by Saulius Saltenis and directed by Gytis Luksas.
Lunar Lithuania
1997
6.0Detective Hall Jefferies, who suffered an injury, is forced to sit in a chair all day and look out the window out of boredom. After a while, Jeffries studied well all the neighbors in the house opposite, their behavior and habits. Changes in the life of a man living with his sick wife led him to think about murder. The woman disappeared, but no one saw her leave the house…
Rear Window
1991
1980s · 19 titles
5.7Facts 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
8.0WWII. Joined forces of Polish and Russian partisans (despite they are in conflict) stand against German Sturmwind I & II actions.
The Crossing
1988
NRThis is a story about a young man striving to make a career and money, about his cunning intrigues when he throws honor, friendship and feelings under his feet, using gullible people.
Nemo's Bank
1980
5.1The heroine of the film is a young attractive woman whose motto is “you need to become depraved to feel like a saint.” She is convinced that men who love her should easily accept her for who she is. But it only causes them pain...
Autumn, Chertanovo...
1988
NRGermany 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
1983 Lithuanian film
Neapykantos pamokos
1983
NRA little boy and a story teller look into the microscope to find out that the world in a drop of a water looks like a real world, so they dive into it and meet different personalities, miracles and events.
Žaltvykslės
1980
NRA 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
Soviet Armenian adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles".
The Thirteenth Apostle
1988
6.1The events take place in a fictional South Africa, where a group of neo-fascists conduct secret experiments on people, using psychological weapons.
Variant "Zombi"
1985
No synopsis available yet.
Crown of the snake
1986
NRThe main conflict is developing between the young talented scientist Romas Špokas and Karolis Budrys, who, by hook or by crook, is trying to occupy the chair of director of a research institute, organized for the widespread development of work on the implementation of Špokas’ promising scientific idea.
Matches From 9 to 9
1980
6.0Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.
Flight Over the Atlantic
1984
NRAbout the feelings and responsibilities of people, about the attitude towards life of the older and younger generations. About the conflict between Dmitry Nikolaevich, who lived in dreams and letters and respect for the woman he met, and Igor Mikhailovich, who used someone else’s name and took advantage of the situation, about a intricately intertwined love story...
A Theme with Variations
1983
NRDuring the filmmaking, a director and actors attempt to create a portrait of a revolutionary.
The Most Important Rehearsal
1986
7.0For thirty years after the wedding, the war separated Jurgis and Morata. Now he is a famous surgeon, he works in the USA under the name of George Sticker and does not know that his daughter has grown up. But Morata finds him anyway. A belated honeymoon does not bring them happiness...
Honeymoon in America
1982
5.0A father and son compete for the affections of a young widow.
Summer Ends in Autumn
1983
NRThis is a story about the love of two people in difficult times of war, about love that overcomes all obstacles, appearing unexpectedly, out of nowhere, taking possession of all the thoughts of the lovers...
Karl and Anna
1981
9.0Once, a young man, Sandy, undertook to transport two strangers to Snake Island to the palace of the wealthy Hanover. The landlord, admiring the courage of a young sailor who was not afraid of the stormy weather, invited the young man to be his guest. Walking around the fabulous palace, Sandy accidentally finds out the story of Hanover.
Golden Chain
1987
Series credits
Behind the camera
7.0A comic play revealing people's empty ambitions and meaningless principles.
Courtship
1983
NRThe already middle-aged Moneylender tells the story of his love for a young lady, poor but proud.
A Gentle Creature
2005
NRThe appearance of a second telephone line at home shakes the closed world of mother, father and daughter.
Waiting for a Call
2012
