5:25 i must warn you, colonel, that my men are armed and have been ordered to use their weapons if you attempt to escape.

we salute our heroes who defended themselves in difficult conditions in the sporting honor of our country.

danetos banionis, behind the external equanimity of this lithuanian sometimes real passions raged, well, he didn’t always do it the way the director wanted, but he said it was so. not good, well then it’s different, when i get bored, it means the matter is hopeless, and absurd, boniones died in 2014, this the last interview in the actor’s life, he gave it a few months before his death,

he probably felt it himself, never before had beñones been so sincere and spoken so openly, and not only about himself, about life, about family, about acting . the fate of that great big country that gave him the opportunity to act in films, he has an outstanding career according to the list of surnames, according to some stages of russian cinema, which he entered there by accident, as always happens with us, so he will have to work clean and understand to the end, with us everything is just god, some actors, well, they all play, but it’s not interesting to watch in close-ups. behind him is the story of how you lived all that time, you loved someone, i don’t know, you remembered about me, you remembered, but not always, and he was handsome, elegant, impressive, such

a foreigner, mysterious, at the same time ours . baniones remained ours. the collapse of the soviet union was a big deal for the lithuanian actor. this is rare archival footage. vilnius, 2014. the last year of the life of danatos beneones. he

i almost never left the house, i was very ill and didn’t give interviews at all. an exception was made only for the film crew of channel one.

great homeland in the steppe, in the taiga, in the tundra. i think he considered himself a citizen of the soviet union. i want to think so, and i believe it. otherwise he would not have played such roles. bnionis's success in soviet cinema was stunning. the star of the baltic actor flashed brightly in 1965 . the drama of the lithuanian director was shown on all screens of the soviet union.

called nationalists take cruel revenge fellow countrymen, the hero of banionis in the past, himself from the forest brothers, becomes the fifth chairman of the soviet state farm in a year, all the previous bandits were shot, i was appointed chairman of the village council, why are you laughing that you were forced?

explosion during the filming, the actor argued a lot with the director, defended his vision of the character of the hero, there were such conflicting moments when i played differently, i played more humanly about my youth there, because i had such a youth as this character, i sting, but the sting was another jelacavian one, not such as i demanded, he... listened to me, although this is very much for zelakevicius, this is not

the kind of director who listens to an actor, but he had to listen, because i demanded so much, his own fate, as in the mirror, did not reflect only the history of his native lithuania, but of the entire soviet union. danatos’s father was a staunch revolutionary, fought against the tsarist regime, survived persecution and prison, but... until his death he believed in communist ideals, he believed that for him stalin, oh, father, when, if anything i or what he will say against stalin, as you have been against stalin for days, for him stalin was almost a god, my father, he was, well , such a communist figure, an underground worker, he was underground, underground all the time he was in prison for the communist one. the straightforwardness and inflexibility of the father was passed on to his son,

since childhood bonionis tried to be the best in everything, at school he got straight a's, loved to read poetry, played in school plays, and of course, dreamed of becoming an actor, what kind of actor are you, how tall are you, the actor must be tall, light-eyed, and you have all this data against...

unexpectedly , the film's consultant, who is also the prototype of lodenikov, the famous illegal intelligence officer konen molody, intervened in the dispute between the director and the artistic council. in the early fifties he worked in the usa and then moved to the uk. thanks to his personal charm and successful acquaintances, he managed to obtain top-secret information about modern

weapons systems, which saved the ussr billions of dollars on their development. let's begin with that. that konam trofimovich had an amazing gift of persuasion of his interlocutor, but otherwise, what kind of intelligence officer would he be, you must admit, but somewhere inside he really wanted the person who would play him in the frame to be naturally similar, similar to him, now let's see, here is a photograph of trofemovich molodov. and danata soboniones, a still from the film, well, before they would have said, find 10 differences, and of course this is an amazing hit in the image, amazing, here they are the eyes of a philosopher, two philosophers, and how

tonatos banion was silent in the frame. as he looked, as he observed, he thought in the frame, the work of a scout i must tell you, it requires a great sense of self-esteem, patience, as a professional intelligence officer should look and observe, bynis also learned this from his hero, the actor spent a lot of time with kononomovych, asked him about the profession and difficulties,

this is a great picture, scene exchange, when they look at each other with an american intelligence officer , views, but it is necessary, it is necessary to invent it, firstly, and secondly, to play, however, in real life konon molodov, the bridge on which he was exchanged was completely different, in in the film it’s a bridge, i wouldn’t even

call it a bridge of some kind. surveillance has been established, is this man really following me, they could have already checked the number, the maid, the phone call. but he, as if nothing had happened, continues his work, thereby violating the most important rule of illegal intelligence. laideinikov

feels the gaze of the local counterintelligence, he feels it, an experienced intelligence officer, of course, feels it, but this is unrealistic in life, as soon as there is a small premonition that you are being watched, the person immediately disappears from the country, with in order to prevent failure. the audience , of course, did not know about such subtleties, and did not want to know. they watched with bated breath the dangerous work of a real hero in execution. the film was a huge success. millions of soviet boys began to dream of working in foreign intelligence services. this unique photo was taken. in 2001. russophobia in lithuania is already blooming wildly. despite this, baniones did not hesitate for a minute and agreed to come to moscow, to the kremlin.

the camera captured the moment of the meeting between baniones and vladimir putin, who warmly greets the actor, shaking his hand with a smile. they say that outside the framework of this official event, vladimir putin even admitted to baniones that it was after watching the dead season that he decided to throw in his lot with intelligence. lent is ending, the magical holiday of easter awaits us, the most important miracle is that god is love, i understood that my loved one was suffering, my feet just led me to the temple, and i confessed, without preparing for this in any way, i burst into tears , since then, yes, we already have four children, i said katya, what happiness, you're pregnant, she says, no, i don't want to live, i don't want to give birth, i said, no, stop, this can't be, you saved the child, right? there was a voronezh religious procession, the first 600 km from voronezh to deveevo, we walked in 21 days, a monk walked with us and i walked like that, i felt so good, i say what it is, he says: it’s grace, i’m

completely blind in one eye i became blind, on the operating table, i physically felt my guardian angel, and i believe that my guardian angel, of course, god, with the hands of the doctors they performed a miracle, oh, how beautiful you are get ready for easter, and this is preparation, i ’m going with the children and we’re hanging our whole garden... so we’re hanging all these eggs, but we ’ve been carrying this sunday in our hearts for the second millennium, this is actually the greatest russian holiday, may 4th on the first , well , they entrusted me with the matter, as the british say, and my finger...

the audience, then demyanenko, duplicating banionis many times, very subtly captured his intonations, his manners, and

sometimes even added something in his own voice. you know, i really like to sit like this, smoke, uh, chat with the person i did something for. true, baniones was far from it. delighted that he was being re-voiced, he was deeply worried that a stranger was speaking for him in the cinema, because in creating the image and character of a character, the voice is of the utmost importance, this is also where the actor’s talent is manifested. in his mind, baniones understood that his accent was really strong, but in his soul he could not come to terms with it. he didn’t like being voiced, yes, he didn’t like it, he spoke of the absolutely brilliant dubbing demyanenko, how is this...

so yes, i say, well, he’s brilliant, absolutely crazy, this is very cool, he says, no, no, not great, no, soviet viewers heard the real voice of banyonis for the first time, thanks to eldar rizanov and his film beware of the car, don’t disturb me, otherwise i ’ll start over, in a short episode the actor played a pastor who buys a stolen car, he voiced himself for the first time, i’m a pastor, these rubles are donations.

some other way, well, everything was busy there, but the ceramics school was empty, no one wanted to be a ceramicist, at that time, who was not interested there, and me, well, i studied there for 4 years at a ceramics school, but banionist never became a ceramics master, although he mastered this craft well, he often compared the process of creating a role with the process of creating a jug or other ceramic there. products, he said that when clay is brought from a quarry, nothing can be done with it, because it is dry, crumbles, it must be processed, remove impurities there, soak in water, then it becomes pliable, and it can be crushed and do different things, just like the role, he says, you can’t take it on the fly, it needs to be stretched,

in the theater. it was on these theatrical stages that danata received an invitation to work in ponevezh and played many roles. he got into cinema late, after 40 years, but immediately worked with the best soviet directors. he caught me on takeoff. absolutely unthinkable directors who formed the new face of cinema, and not only ours, because soviet cinema at that time, of course, undoubtedly had a global influence on absolutely, andrei torkovsky’s film solaris, at its core a fantastic novel by polish writer stanislaw lem, it is considered a masterpiece not only of soviet but also of world cinema. i'm

kellyn.

this is what i’m saying all the time, because the operator says, you turned, and there’s a tree standing there, and you’re covering a tree far away, you’re just like that, not like that, because like that, these are the kinds of things that scare me, that i’m covering some kind of... that tree, and for it you need a composition so that this tree can be seen far away, banionis needed to understand and feel the character’s character, he... wanted to be just like a puppet in the frame, and he wasn’t used to such an attitude from the director, but torkovsky was merciless towards baniones, donatos baniones was always awarded some kind of prize in the soviet union, he was incredibly

popular, that is, now he will go out onto the street, oh, donatas, baniones, that is, we even had such a wonderful one. there is an anecdote that we have three great russian heroes who rode up the hill: banionis, adamaitis and budraitis , because they starred in all our soviet films, and were very popular before us, this irritated torkovsky, because that well, no one knew him when they went out into the street, yes, like torkovsky, and that’s all of him, this one... this - a purely almost political moment began to separate them, but the complex creative relationships on the set did not interfere, and maybe , on the contrary, even helped baniones brilliantly

play psychologist chris kelvin. his hero finds himself on the distant planet solaris, which has the ability to think and make dreams come true. this is how chris meets his wife harry here. who committed suicide many years ago, oh well, ok, maybe your appearance should be torture, maybe a service from the ocean, but what does all this matter if you are dearer to me than all the scientific truths that have ever existed in the world, why donatus and i always talked about why the picture is so penetrates deep, we don't need any bone. says snut: but we need earthly, earth, man needs man, and torkovsky’s most valuable thing was always home,

love, warmth, human warmth. bnyonis managed to play not just love, he surprisingly subtly conveyed the pain from her loss is a feeling. he himself experienced in his distant childhood, donatas was deprived of his mother’s love, he hardly remembered his own mother, his parents decided to divorce when he was only 6 years old, his mother kept her eldest daughter, danatos’s sister, and gave him to his father, they lived in the same city , but the mother was not looking for meetings with her son, they saw their mother often, not often, well, they lived in kalnos, then where in the yard where did she appear where... maybe or something like that, well, well, no, no, no, no, no talked, i was already afraid, it was like that, well, it’s so stupid, that means mom, mom has another family, i don’t want to, i’m afraid, well

, 6-7 years, but as long as you understand, this feeling is like being afraid of your mother, that this is no longer my mother, already a different mother. there were different mothers in the boy's life. my father tried several times to build a new family, but it didn’t work out. but danata himself became an exemplary husband and father. with his future wife ona, by an amazing coincidence, her name was also the actor’s mother. the actor met in 1947. this woman was destined to become the main one in his destiny.

from the fists of the rich, well, my father was arrested there, they wanted her so much, we had to save her, and we got married, and i saved her, saved her, because she was already... dissuaded from this marriage, think about it, a girl from an unreliable family, you can ruin your career, but young banyoni i didn’t listen to the advice, since he said that he would get married, then he would do so, well, it was necessary in the church, if you are normal...

years old, they became the parents of two sons, the eldest was named egidius, the youngest raimundas, the relationship between mom and dad for boys has always been a model, the two of them and the butcher, they were, together, that is, there was no ostentatious respect, courting each other, they respected each other together and were together, and that’s absolutely, well , it was so organic, for me it’s like that too, well... they argued, it was, it was, this and their voices

were raised against each other there for some reason. she began her journey in the theater as an actress, but after the birth of her children she left her acting career. when the boys grew up, she returned to the theater, but did not participate in performances, but worked in the administration. only benionis was an actor in their family. wife i believed in his talent and supported him in everything. well , here, you see, he won, because, after all , a mother is a person who really took on all the responsibilities of everything, and of course, allowed him to mainly engage in creativity, she really is the keeper of the family hearth, he is the father, well while he was doing theater, of course he helped, but then he started going on film sets, he practically never happened, he returned there for a couple of days and left again, in the seventies donathanis was a star of the first magnitude, in the soviet union baltic actors are very popular.

for my part, i give you my word that in order to die, the adventure of prince farizel, the role of checkered, will be remembered for a long time, you still have to manage to play such a charming bandit, a killer, we are jewelers, we are accustomed to symmetry, well, even edges, but sometimes you want something ... he was a man with great humor and played with great humor; his attitude towards himself, as a person and as an artist, towards his character, who he was, was always broadcast. there is another scoundrel in the actor’s filmography, but he’s already far away. not so charming, what? in the film, zmeyoni played a character named kolobok. despite his cozy appearance, this man is a real criminal who...

and isn’t that enough? well, remembering, it’s just immediately remembered for its kind of bright, vibrant individuality. you've been meeting me for almost the entire life of a popular actor. moreover , such a scale as danata banionis means endless film expeditions. his own sons hardly saw their father, but despite this, banionis managed to become a great authority for them. the actor made good money filmed, for example, in the gdr and italy, where

they paid in foreign currency. but the actor treated money very carefully, did not like to squander, and taught the boys to do this. such a person, yes with student money, yes, that is, he will give, well, you have to ask for it and will only give as much as he asks. danatas banionis was a very modest person in everyday life and habits, he lived all his life in a town of poor people, he worked in the local theater, later he headed it himself, became the artistic director, he always went to the theater on foot, it was not far from there, his apartment was, i think about 10-15 minutes. smoshli, i was amazed that no one turned around, no one rushed to him with autographs, and he walked there absolutely unencumbered by this fame, he liked to live there, because he belonged to them , and he calmly walked in the store, carrying ovoska, there were

corners of milk bottles sticking out of the soviet ovoska and so on. vaneonits sons also grew up in modesty. the elder egidius graduated from the moscow institute of history and archives, returned to lithuania, became a famous scientist, the younger raimundas played in his youth theater with his father, but then decided to become a director. i prepared to enter avgig, but i did it all myself, i went to vgik and entered, so i said that my father told kulidzhanov, and he said: oh, you need to help him, your son, no need, he’s already enrolled . after graduating from geek, raimundas returned to lithuania, worked as a television director, started a family, and gave his father grandchildren. but the fate of the actor’s eldest son was tragic. in the early nineties, egidius was given a terrible diagnosis - cancer.

he was only 45. the man literally burned out in front of family for several months. the nineties became a difficult time for banionis, not only because of the death of his son. personal grief coincided with public grief. the ussr, a huge country, of which the actor always considered himself a citizen, ceased to exist. we were convinced that this self-determination of the country, independence, this is wonderful, the country will develop, and no one thought about the consequences and... how this will affect art, on, i don’t know, the economy, no one thought about it, especially actors from the former soviet union suffered republics, until quite recently they were mega-popular, they were known and adored by 280 million people living in the huge soviet union, but

now there was no trace left of their popularity, many of the former baltic stars of soviet cinema literally had difficulty making... ends , there were merits, honorary titles, awards, but they didn’t mean anything else. baniones was no exception. twice laureate of the ussr state prize, people's artist of the soviet union, this caused irritation and outright anger in independent lithuania. he he was a little in a hunted state, he was humiliated at one time, that you had sold yourself to russia. and he retained this human basis, human, he did not become these terry nationalists and i think that this is worth a lot, and i believe that that human decree turned out to be stronger than the nationalist ones, so i am

only proud that i was with him, inspired at that difficult time for baniones. meetings with russian spectators began, and the lithuanians did not forget, for fans from russia he still remained the standard of masculinity charm. the russian viewer is a very devoted viewer, so he fell in love with some actors from a young age, some baltic, georgian, so this love remained for the rest of his life, and of course, if a person does not make any sharp attacks, they are ungrateful... unjust, the love for them will never dry up among the russian audience.

increasing no pathos, although i repeat that this is a legend. gradually, the economic situation in russia improved. for many actors from the former soviet republics, it was our russian cinema that became their salvation. at the beginning of 2000, film production began to gradually revive. a new generation of producers emerged who were actively exploring the genre of television series. on the offer to play an american detective in a television project. with getting back into action, i easily fell into character again,

gladly agreed, i dreamed that i would have to work cleanly and figure it out to the end, i can help with something, archie, i had a hard evening, one bottle, but no, sir, that’s out of the question, but when he played wulf, he always placed such pieces of paper with the russian,

the smallest orchid in the world, he belongs to the category of those artists who do not talk between shots, that is, he... is not the artist who, here he told a joke, immediately ran into the frame, cried, ran back to tell the joke, no , i need to talk to nirowulf right now, before i change my mind, he, yes, he’s probably a little in himself, but at the same time there was no feeling of such alienation and such a wall, so you can’t approach a person, oh-oh-oh, no , he is such a man in himself, no, it was respectful attitude towards the fact that a person sits, gets ready, rests, and so on, but... a very good , friendly aura emanated from him. this series gave a path to professional life for many young

actors and actresses. in the series, anna banshchikova first appeared on screen. before the joint scene with banionis, the girl was nervous. she would have been a world star, but as it turned out, then she was nervous for nothing. any more questions? well, i know the rest. i remember that he sat at such a huge table. there's a scene where i'm sitting there, on some chair, she’s all like that, and he has such a huge table, i sat down like that, i’m silent, i’m afraid to talk to him, he’s like, what the hell is he like, he once joked with me like that, i don’t remember exactly how, but i remember that he made it clear to me not to be embarrassed, not to be afraid, thank you for liking my pun, and the scale of a person’s personality, it’s simply broadcast, you just walk into a room and that’s it, just like a person takes up all the space, just like him...

and this is that rare case when from the screen baniones speaks in his own voice. it must be some kind of allegory, it must be something metaphorical. one of the roles in this film was played by andrey urgand. we are getting acquainted. i say, hello, my name is andrey. he says donatas. i say, well, donatas, i’m so uncomfortable. it is customary for us to call each other by first name and middle name. he says, “well, if it’s convenient for you, call me danatas yoses.” i say, no, it will be long. let's communicate normally, you don't want excellent tobacco, thank you, i'm not accustomed to this joy, and we became friends, calm,

talented, then i looked. take, second take, everything is the same, then you look at the material, two different completely doubles, this is a great feeling for an artist when he has this gift, to feel the camera, to understand that he is now in the spotlight and still have time to communicate with his partner, however, i hear , we will have a guest, what are you talking about, semyon semyonovich? no, believe me, the guest is in a hurry to come to us without sparing any effort, little guest, dear. a good friendly company gathered on the set of the film. in addition to banionis and urgant, the film stars andrey sokolov and marina vladi. the french actress of russian origin often held get-togethers in her dressing room. she always had a bottle of vodka on her table. so according to russian tradition, as they say, just in case. i remember that he had one

professional peculiarity: for example, he refused. and i liked it, firstly, that he kept me from this sin, because well, like at work, you can’t do this at work, work for a lithuanian actor always came first, if there was an opportunity to just relax, then i rested only with her wife, no amorous hobbies in the country, even to our correspondent’s innocent question... about which actresses he liked, the actor seemed offended, but chamionis’s partners on the set were such beauties as natalya bondarchuk, via artmana, only i can say the wife, but what else can i, maybe another actress, well, no, that didn’t happen, there was a wife, so there was

a wife, over the years donata and his wife became one whole. but in 2008 she became seriously ill, and they tried not to think the worst, but no miracle happened, mom didn’t leave immediately, yes, you see, it wasn’t an instant departure, she left gradually, therefore, therefore, there was no such sudden, you know, some kind of big shock. but, but he brought it badly, because his health deteriorated very much after his mother left, his memory was very strong, even these joints, although they hurt, but all this complicated everything very much, after the death of his wife, baniones was left alone, about repeating i didn’t even want to think about marriage, she remained the main and

only woman in his life, an actor from the theater... i had to finally leave, or rather, he was forced to do it. according to the new pension reform adopted in lithuania, working pensioners were completely deprived of their pension. the actor moved from ponevezhes to vilnius to be closer to the family of his youngest son. he had no more relatives. for his compatriots, actor danatas baniones no longer existed. he was often offended, and intentionally. he once told me. he told me with bitterness that he came on some pension matter, well, to the district social security service, and there they asked, he comes crowned with world fame, they asked him, your last name, he she says, banionis, how, panionis, and says, she asked six times, then she says, i turned around and left, because i couldn’t

recognize boniones. firstly, and secondly, to clarify six times what his last name was, paneonist, punionist there, she didn’t catch it, he turned around and proudly left, this had never happened to him in russia, they recognized him, well , i must say that after all, he won his main fame in russian films, most films or films. the last time the famous actor appeared on russian screens was in the television series of channel one. leningrad, which was dedicated to the tragic events of the blockade. bleaney played a very small role as fisherman toymu, who helps soviet troops deliver food to a city surrounded by the germans. now there will be an ear. good sik. where is it shallow? already frozen? you know where?

me not. this role became his resounding response.

that he voted for her as a deputy of the supreme soviet of the ussr, never spoke badly about russia, therefore in his own people in lithuania, at the end of his life he was given few roles and was somehow biased towards him, and the only thing is, what i can emphasize is that he was an artist of the soviet union, there is no doubt about that. danatas bañones died in september 2014. 4 months after my ninetieth birthday, a sudden stroke and my heart stopped,

i know how to destroy the memory of pleasant meetings. and the memory of him remained the kindest. danatas baniones, an actor who gained worldwide fame, but remained himself, a very modest and deeply decent person, who never betrayed himself, his family, or his family until his death. beliefs. he lived and worked for the sake of his audience, and feeling all the sincerity and honesty of the great actor and man danatas boneones. his audience always answered him with the most sincere and ardent love and still does.

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