Algamantas Masiulis is a Soviet and Lithuanian film and theater actor. People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR Was Commander of the Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas.
In the era of the seventies and eighties, when films about the war were most often filmed, the Lithuanian artist Algimantas Masiulis was almost unanimously recognized as the best performer of the roles of the Germans.
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The biography of the future famous artist began in 1931. He was born in the small village of Surdegis on July 10. Algimantas, in his youth, decided that he would become a famous actor. He was attracted by the opportunity to reveal all emotions, talent and skill in full.
After school, the graduate decided to receive education in a studio at the Drama Theater of Panevezhas. The student studied art, the art of reincarnation. He devoted all his strength and time to perfecting his natural talent.
The training ended in 1948. At that time Masiulis became one of the best in his class. During his studies, the novice actor received a lot of knowledge and experience. The graduate was taken to the Panevezys Theater, which had already become a native. Spectators from all over the country came to watch the game of the stately and gifted artist.
The theatergoers immediately noted the talent of the boy from the Miltinis theater. It was this wonderful director and teacher who discovered the applicant's talent in time and developed his talent. The troupe consisted of actors who received not only professional education, but also knew the history of culture, manners, and foreign languages. Juozas Miltinis taught them all this.
Algimantas worked within its walls until 1978. Then the artist joined the troupe of the Academic Drama Theater of Kaunas. In an interview, the artist admitted that there are no recipes in art. Creativity cannot be described or explained by formulas. There are only ethical and moral rules. No right to humiliate a person, to deprive him of
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The short film "The Drowned" in 1955 became a real film debut for the theatrical actor. Misiulis played the role of the official Ionis Shatas, who served in bourgeois Lithuania. He finds himself in an anecdotal situation. After such a fiasco, collapse is inevitable for all ambitious plans. It was the first feature film in Lithuanian cinema. However, even before this work, the actor starred in an episode of the film about Ignotas returning home.
While preparing for the role of an official, Algimantas decided to adhere to the tragicomic direction. He balanced on the verge of seriousness and grotesque. The actor of one of the country's leading theaters at that time already had an excellent school behind him. After the premiere of the short film, invitations to shoot began. Initially, the artist was offered roles in Lithuania, and since the mid-sixties he collaborated with studios throughout the country.
The Drowned Man gave the artist one of his best characters. Over time, the actor developed a consistent manner of acting, he had an expressive type from birth. With a minimum of performing costs, Misiulis achieved maximum sharpness of form. This skill brought the actor to the leading masters of the world of predators.
Each movie hero was clearly distinguished by a sharp expressiveness with external restraint, thoughtfulness. The role lined up from the first to the last movement. In addition, bright looks have become a determinant of the film future. In the theater, the artist was offered a variety of characters. The film set presented the role of a villain. However, even here Misiulis turned out to be unique: all his villains were intelligent.
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The artist's playful nickname was “the main fascist of the Soviet Union”. The performer himself dreamed of the role of Don Quixote. True, all the directors saw him in the role of a "stranger". In their opinion, in the performance of Masiulis, spies and SS men were ideal. The figure, habits, eyes - they were called the features of an aristocrat, a typical bourgeois, a gentleman. The artist, who has the look of an intellectual, is "entrenched" in the images of foreigners, Thanks to the interesting texture and light accent, the blue-eyed blonde played Germans in films about the war, Americans in films about life in America. And the performer made his debut on the big screen as a fascist. And after the role of Willie Schwarzkopf in the epic "Shield and Sword", All-Union fame came to him.
They decided to play the character not by accepted standards, but differently. The hero recalled that the soldiers hated the battle and the war itself, but among the officers there were many educated people fit for ideological Nazis.
Private life
In the cinema, the actor played almost a hundred characters. He showed almost two hundred heroes on the stage of the theater. In "Treasure Island" he played Squire Trelawney, in "The Fall of the Engineer Garin" - Stufen, the knight Guy Gisborne the actor was in "The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe".
In American Tragedy, the actor got the character of Jephson's lawyer, and in Hearts of Three, he became Mr. Regan. The last work was the film "Fritz and Blondes". The artist filmed this documentary with his son.
The personal life of the performer has developed happily. Algimantas and Grazhina, his chosen one, became husband and wife, lived together for many years. He worked as an actor in the Kaunas theater until the last days. The family has two children, a daughter and a son. Milda chose medicine. She completed her medical education and works at the Vilnius Children's Clinic.
The famous actor passed away in 2008, on August 19. Throughout his life, he delighted the audience with an excellent game, portraying magnificent and always colorful characters.
