Antanas Šurna

Antanas Šurna

Born: March 27, 1940
Died: May 19, 2014
Antanas Šurna (27 March 1939 – 19 May 2014) was a Lithuanian stage and movie actor. He has appeared in over 100 movies and 50 plays. He is thought to be one of the most successful actors in Lithuania. His career began during the late 1960s. He won many awards during his 40-year career. Šurna died suddenly from cardiac arrest in Vilnius, Lithuania, aged 75.

Movies for Antanas Šurna...

Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda
Title: Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda
Character: Snegiriovas
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
A romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army
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Defiance
Title: Defiance
Character: Orthodox Rabbi
Released: December 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
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Elze's Life
Title: Elze's Life
Released: April 7, 2000
Type: Movie
At the end of the 19th century, proud but poor fisherman Jurgaitis gets imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. His beautiful daughter Elze is sent to live with rich German merchant Michael. There she falls for his son Endrik.
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Father
Title: Father
Character: Rotmistras
Released: December 18, 1990
Type: Movie
The film is based on the work of the Swedish writer August Strindberg.
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Title: Chameleon
Character: Liudas Skirmonis
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: TV
A two part mini-series based on Jonas Avyžius novels.
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State Border: Vol. 7. Salty Wind
Title: State Border: Vol. 7. Salty Wind
Released: May 26, 1988
Type: Movie
A group of saboteurs was sent into Estonia in 1959. This group included a local resident who also has his own personal goal: to find the daughter he lost at the end of the war while fleeing abroad.
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Pirosmani, Pirosmani...
Title: Pirosmani, Pirosmani...
Character: Grigolas
Released: May 24, 1987
Type: Movie
About the last days of the great Niko Pirosmanishvili, who died alone. And his only interlocutors were the heroes of the paintings...
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Title: Pelėkautai
Character: Misteris Paravanicinis
Released: November 30, 1986
Type: TV
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Benjaminas Kordušas
Title: Benjaminas Kordušas
Character: Benjaminas Kordušas
Released: September 18, 1986
Type: Movie
The film tells about the life of the Lithuanian landed nobility in the period between the two wars, about the desire to live their old life. But new times dictate new conditions, new values ​​emerge, and loyalty to old ideals is doomed...
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A Woman and Her Four Men
Title: A Woman and Her Four Men
Character: Father
Released: April 1, 1983
Type: Movie
An epic tale set at the turn of the 20th century in a struggling fishing community, following the life of a woman widowed at the beginning of the film.
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Lumberjacks
Title: Lumberjacks
Released: October 21, 1982
Type: Movie
About the everyday life of lumberjacks who seek solace in vodka, which becomes the cause of many troubles and misfortunes. But the old lumberjacks have their own philosophy and their own outlook on life....
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Raindrops
Title: Raindrops
Character: Eduardas Tynupiartas
Released: October 7, 1981
Type: Movie
The film is based on the novel of the same name by P. Kuusberg and tells about the fate of former classmates, high school students, during the Second World War and in the post-war period.
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Matches From 9 to 9
Title: Matches From 9 to 9
Character: Janulis
Released: November 16, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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Little Sins
Title: Little Sins
Character: Leonas Ulba
Released: August 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Raimondas Kašauskas, about a strange man who is restless, who wants to live differently from everyone else, to play life.
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Journey to Paradise
Title: Journey to Paradise
Character: Žandaras
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
The rich widow Marta Anker, owner of a renowned trading company, loves the poor fisherman Ansą Balčiai. The locals keep the ongoings under close watch.
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I'll Not Become a Gangster, Dear
Title: I'll Not Become a Gangster, Dear
Character: Dikas Deneveras
Released: December 8, 1978
Type: Movie
A criminal story based on the novels by O. Henry.
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Sodybų tuštėjimo metas
Title: Sodybų tuštėjimo metas
Character: Marius Nemunis („Raudonasis Marius“)
Released: May 25, 1978
Type: Movie
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Music
Title: Music
Character: Mišelis Nolė
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Based on M.Diuras' play.
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Walnut Bread
Title: Walnut Bread
Character: Kaminskas
Released: December 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Lithuania, 1977. Memories of childhood, adolescence, and first love in a small provincial town, shown through complexity of human relations at this periodical film.
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Smoke and Shorty
Title: Smoke and Shorty
Released: December 26, 1975
Type: Movie
A musical movie based on Jack London novels.
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The Day of Retribution
Title: The Day of Retribution
Character: Mykolas
Released: December 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Lithuania in the 19th century: While the first railway-road is built from Warsaw to Moscow throughout the country people are still facing slavery and oppression from the elite. A fight between the Robin-Hood-like gang leader Laurynas and the greedy landowner Laurnyas emerges.
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Shattered Sky
Title: Shattered Sky
Character: Steponas Kreivėnas
Released: June 6, 1975
Type: Movie
A son returns to his parents in Lithuania after years of traveling over all USSR and brings with him his Ukrainian wife.
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Incident with a Typesetter
Title: Incident with a Typesetter
Released: May 12, 1975
Type: Movie
The first part of "Provincial Anecdotes".
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Northern Crusades
Title: Northern Crusades
Character: Herkus Mantas (tėvas ir sūnus)
Released: December 14, 1972
Type: Movie
Historical epic about the uprising of the Prussians agains the Teutonic crusaders.
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Wounds of Our Land
Title: Wounds of Our Land
Character: Giedraitis
Released: April 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Tragic pages in the history of the formation of the independent Lithuanian state in 1918-20.
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Men Summer
Title: Men Summer
Character: Monk
Released: September 5, 1970
Type: Movie
Lithuania, 1947. The battle between Read Army and "Forest Brothers" continue...
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Ave, Vita
Title: Ave, Vita
Character: Einas
Released: December 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Film - Reflection. The characters are the people who survived the war, the horror of the fascist concentration camps and the danger of suffocation, as well as those whose parents past is known only theoretically
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Nobody Wanted to Die
Title: Nobody Wanted to Die
Released: December 24, 1965
Type: Movie
The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between the Soviets and the "brothers in the woods", who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets after the end of the Second World War.