Donatas
Yuosovich Banionis was born on April 28, 1924 in Kaunas, Lithuania. Banionis
began his career with some films in Lithuania, but he would later play mainly
in Russian language films. He has also worked outside the U.S.S.R. like in the
title role Goya of the USSR-GDR coproduction “Goya - oder Der arge Weg der
Erkenntnis” (1971), directed by Konrad Wolf and in the title role as Beethoven
in the 1976 DEFA-production “Beethoven - Tage aus einem Leben”. He is best
known in the West for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's “Solaris”
as Kris Kelvin. Donatas appeared in one Euro-western as Gabriel Conroy in
“Armed and Dangerous” (1977).Today we celelbrate Donatas Banionis’s 90th birthday.
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