Aleksandr Kalyagin and Juozas Budraitis in Wounded Game
Russian postcard. Bjuro Propagandy Sovetskogo Kinoiskusstva, Riga, 1977. Juozas Budraitis and Aleksandr Kalyagin in Подранки/ Podranki (Wounded Game. Nikolai Gubenko 1977). It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.
Juozas Stanislavas Budraitis (Lithuanian: Juozas Budraitis) is a Soviet and Lithuanian theater and film actor, born on October 6, 1940 in the small village of Lipinai, Kelmė District, Lithuanian SSR. He was a People's Artist of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1982.
Juozas Budraitis was born into a peasant background. His parents moved to Klaipėda in 1945, and to Švėkšna in 1955. Very active in the life of his school, Juozas would nevertheless be expelled from his high school, in tenth grade, for hooliganism. He then worked as a carpenter in Klaipėda. After completing his active service in the Soviet army, he entered the Faculty of Law at Vilnius University. His film career began in 1961 when he played in an episode of the film When Rivers Meet. As a third year student at the university, the director Vitautas Prano Jalakiavitchous invited him to play the role of Jonas in the famous Lithuanian film Niekas nenorėjo mirti (Nobody Wanted to Die, Vytautas Žalakevičius, 1965), which Donatas Banionis starred in. This film marked the beginning of Juozas' fame.
He enrolled in Law courses at the university of Vilnius, from which he graduated in 1969, and acted in many films, including those abroad. He became an actor in the Lithuanian Film Studios in 1969, and was the standard bearer of the "Lithuanian school" of cinema. During this period, he starred in the films The Shield and the Sword (1967), Two Comrades Were Serving (1968), The Lanfier Colony (1969), White Dunes (1969), King Lear (1970) Ave Vita (1970), The Rudobel Republic (1971), That Sweet Word: Liberty! (1973), With You and without You ... (1973), Blockade (1974), Time does not Wait (1975), The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce (1976), The Legend of Thiel (1976), The Lost House (1976). From 1976 to 1978 he attended the advanced courses of scriptwriter and director at the State Film School of the USSR in Moscow. At the end of his training, Juozas was invited by his classmate and main director of the Kaunas State Dramatic Theatre, Jonas Vaitkus, to join this theater company, with which he worked until 1988 and played important roles.
Juozas abandoned his career as a director after the failure of his first production, City of Birds, based on a story by Yuri Olecha, in 1982. In 1980-1988 he was an actor of the Kaunas State Drama Theatre, where he acted in the plays Builder Solnes (1980), Sharunas (Prince of Dainavsky, 1980), Blue Horses on Red Grass (1982), Caligula (1983), Private (1985), The Home for the Elderly (1986). In parallel with the work in the theater, the actor continued to play in films. In the 1980s, he starred in the films Life Is Beautiful (1979), Fairfax's Millions (1980), Dangerous Age (1981), Niccolo Paganini (1982), Honeymoon in America (1982), Confessions of his Wife (1984), Battle of Moscow (1985), The 13th Apostle (1988), The Sinner (1988), etc. In 1983, Budraitis played one of the main roles in the television series The Rich Man, the Poor Man based on the novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw, and also starred in the romantic comedy Carousel. These roles made him one of the most sought-after actors of his generation.
In the 1990s, he starred in the films Mad Laurie (1991), Do not Ask Me About Nothing (1991), The Trail of the Rain (1991), The Tragedy of the Century (1993), The House on a Rock (1994), The Devil's Charm (1994), I do not know who I am (1995), etc. At the same time, he continued to act actively in domestic and Russian films, such as Classic (1999), Demobbed (2000), Revenge is Sweet (2001), Down House (2001), Princess Slutskaya (2004), The Fall of the Empire (2005), Wolfhound (2006), Tanker Tango (2006), Yes You Will not be Judged ... (2007), Kromov (2009), Debt (2009), Armed resistance (2009), Black Arrow (2009), and others. In 2001 he was appointed Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Russia and Ministerial Advisor to the Embassy.
In February 2008, Juozas Budraitis performed for the first time on the Russian stage, playing one of the main roles in the new performance of the Presnyakov brothers PAB, the premiere of which took place in Theatrium on Serpukhovka. In 2009, he acted in the play Cherry Orchard staged by the Finnish director Christian Smeds
Juozas Budraitis still actively pursues his career as an actor and appears in Lithuanian and Russian television series.
Sources: French and English Wikipedia, IMDb.
Aleksandr Kalyagin and Juozas Budraitis in Wounded Game
Russian postcard. Bjuro Propagandy Sovetskogo Kinoiskusstva, Riga, 1977. Juozas Budraitis and Aleksandr Kalyagin in Подранки/ Podranki (Wounded Game. Nikolai Gubenko 1977). It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.
Juozas Stanislavas Budraitis (Lithuanian: Juozas Budraitis) is a Soviet and Lithuanian theater and film actor, born on October 6, 1940 in the small village of Lipinai, Kelmė District, Lithuanian SSR. He was a People's Artist of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1982.
Juozas Budraitis was born into a peasant background. His parents moved to Klaipėda in 1945, and to Švėkšna in 1955. Very active in the life of his school, Juozas would nevertheless be expelled from his high school, in tenth grade, for hooliganism. He then worked as a carpenter in Klaipėda. After completing his active service in the Soviet army, he entered the Faculty of Law at Vilnius University. His film career began in 1961 when he played in an episode of the film When Rivers Meet. As a third year student at the university, the director Vitautas Prano Jalakiavitchous invited him to play the role of Jonas in the famous Lithuanian film Niekas nenorėjo mirti (Nobody Wanted to Die, Vytautas Žalakevičius, 1965), which Donatas Banionis starred in. This film marked the beginning of Juozas' fame.
He enrolled in Law courses at the university of Vilnius, from which he graduated in 1969, and acted in many films, including those abroad. He became an actor in the Lithuanian Film Studios in 1969, and was the standard bearer of the "Lithuanian school" of cinema. During this period, he starred in the films The Shield and the Sword (1967), Two Comrades Were Serving (1968), The Lanfier Colony (1969), White Dunes (1969), King Lear (1970) Ave Vita (1970), The Rudobel Republic (1971), That Sweet Word: Liberty! (1973), With You and without You ... (1973), Blockade (1974), Time does not Wait (1975), The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce (1976), The Legend of Thiel (1976), The Lost House (1976). From 1976 to 1978 he attended the advanced courses of scriptwriter and director at the State Film School of the USSR in Moscow. At the end of his training, Juozas was invited by his classmate and main director of the Kaunas State Dramatic Theatre, Jonas Vaitkus, to join this theater company, with which he worked until 1988 and played important roles.
Juozas abandoned his career as a director after the failure of his first production, City of Birds, based on a story by Yuri Olecha, in 1982. In 1980-1988 he was an actor of the Kaunas State Drama Theatre, where he acted in the plays Builder Solnes (1980), Sharunas (Prince of Dainavsky, 1980), Blue Horses on Red Grass (1982), Caligula (1983), Private (1985), The Home for the Elderly (1986). In parallel with the work in the theater, the actor continued to play in films. In the 1980s, he starred in the films Life Is Beautiful (1979), Fairfax's Millions (1980), Dangerous Age (1981), Niccolo Paganini (1982), Honeymoon in America (1982), Confessions of his Wife (1984), Battle of Moscow (1985), The 13th Apostle (1988), The Sinner (1988), etc. In 1983, Budraitis played one of the main roles in the television series The Rich Man, the Poor Man based on the novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw, and also starred in the romantic comedy Carousel. These roles made him one of the most sought-after actors of his generation.
In the 1990s, he starred in the films Mad Laurie (1991), Do not Ask Me About Nothing (1991), The Trail of the Rain (1991), The Tragedy of the Century (1993), The House on a Rock (1994), The Devil's Charm (1994), I do not know who I am (1995), etc. At the same time, he continued to act actively in domestic and Russian films, such as Classic (1999), Demobbed (2000), Revenge is Sweet (2001), Down House (2001), Princess Slutskaya (2004), The Fall of the Empire (2005), Wolfhound (2006), Tanker Tango (2006), Yes You Will not be Judged ... (2007), Kromov (2009), Debt (2009), Armed resistance (2009), Black Arrow (2009), and others. In 2001 he was appointed Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Russia and Ministerial Advisor to the Embassy.
In February 2008, Juozas Budraitis performed for the first time on the Russian stage, playing one of the main roles in the new performance of the Presnyakov brothers PAB, the premiere of which took place in Theatrium on Serpukhovka. In 2009, he acted in the play Cherry Orchard staged by the Finnish director Christian Smeds
Juozas Budraitis still actively pursues his career as an actor and appears in Lithuanian and Russian television series.
Sources: French and English Wikipedia, IMDb.