Valentinas Masalskis

Acting

Valentinas Masalskis

Born

1954-04-11 (72)

Place of birth

Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Raudonmedžio Rojus poster
4.5

A five part mini-series based on the novel by the same name.

Raudonmedžio Rojus

1980

Exile poster
8.5

Based 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

Vortex poster
6.6

Based 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

Forest of the Gods poster
7.8

The 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

Fact poster
5.7

Facts 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

The Crossing poster
8.0

WWII. 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

The Flood Won’t Come poster
6.0

A 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

The Flood Won’t Come poster
6.0

A 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

Cinephilia poster
4.5

With 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

Nova Lituania poster
6.9

During 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

The Noisemaker poster
6.0

A 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

The Silent Lithuanian Revolution poster
NR

The 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

Boris Godunov poster
5.4

Our 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

Anima Animus poster
6.5

The 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

Waiting for a Call poster
NR

The 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

1990s · 7 titles

1980s · 19 titles

Fact poster
5.7

Facts 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

The Crossing poster
8.0

WWII. Joined forces of Polish and Russian partisans (despite they are in conflict) stand against German Sturmwind I & II actions.

The Crossing

1988

Nemo's Bank poster
NR

This 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

Autumn, Chertanovo... poster
5.1

The 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

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

No artwork available
NR

1983 Lithuanian film

Neapykantos pamokos

1983

Žaltvykslės poster
NR

A 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

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

No artwork available
5.7

Soviet Armenian adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles".

The Thirteenth Apostle

1988

Variant "Zombi" poster
6.1

The 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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Crown of the snake

1986

Matches From 9 to 9 poster
NR

The 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

Flight Over the Atlantic poster
6.0

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

Flight Over the Atlantic

1984

A Theme with Variations poster
NR

About 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

The Most Important Rehearsal poster
NR

During the filmmaking, a director and actors attempt to create a portrait of a revolutionary.

The Most Important Rehearsal

1986

Honeymoon in America poster
7.0

For 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

Summer Ends in Autumn poster
5.0

A father and son compete for the affections of a young widow.

Summer Ends in Autumn

1983

Karl and Anna poster
NR

This 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

Golden Chain poster
9.0

Once, 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