Ants Lauter

Ants Lauter

Born: July 5, 1894
Died: October 30, 1973
Ants Lauter (5 July 1894 – 30 October 1973) was an Estonian actor, theatre director and pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1948). He was born in Veski, Wiek County, and died, aged 79, in Tallinn.

Since 1974 the Ants Lauter Award has been given to a young stage actor or theatre director.

Movies for Ants Lauter...

Windy Beach
Title: Windy Beach
Released: January 3, 1971
Type: Movie
The coastal people of Kaugatoma set out to build their own ship to earn a living independent of the baron's will. The baron does everything to prevent the venture, but still "Kaugatoma" raises its white sails. Unfortunately, the power of money turns out to be decisive both in the organization of joint activities and in the relations of the strong-natured captain Tõnis Tihu with the community and his loved ones. He abandons Liisu, with whom he has a son, and marries a wealthy widow. As a captain, he has the power to look after the welfare of the sailors, but he thinks more about his own safety. However, the winds of 1905 are already blowing over the sea.
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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Released: December 15, 1970
Type: Movie
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
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Between Three Plagues
Title: Between Three Plagues
Character: Asevalitseja Horn
Released: November 14, 1970
Type: Movie
The story of Balthasar Russow, an Estonian pastor from the 16th century, his life and life's work - writing The Chronicle of Livonia.
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The Last Relic
Title: The Last Relic
Character: Old Man (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1970
Type: Movie
A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movie is still the best achievement of the Estonian cinema. Based on a novel.
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The Dead Season
Title: The Dead Season
Released: December 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works a former German war criminal Dr. Hass, who is finishing the creation of a deadly chemical gas RH development of which he began during WW2 experimenting on war prisoners. Since Ladeynikov doesn't know Dr. Hass's appearance, Soviet intelligence recruits an actor, Ivan Savushkin, who during the war escaped from a prison camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together they must identify and stop him before he finishes and unleashes his weapon of mass destruction.
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Men Don't Cry
Title: Men Don't Cry
Character: Managing Director
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A group of sleepless nerds should be taken into sanitarium for hard-therapy. They are taken to a lonely island but no sanitarium is in sight. Suddenly turns out that the nurses have kidnapped the men and are about to give them the only useful medicine they need - fresh air and work. But the patients decide to disobey. There's only one solution - to escape. The film is absolute cult in Estonia.
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The Milkman of Mäeküla
Title: The Milkman of Mäeküla
Character: Baron von Kremer
Released: July 10, 1965
Type: Movie
A baron gives a poor peasant a well-paid job of a milkman but for reward he has to accept his beloved girl going to the mansion from time to time. Does the wealth outweigh the honor and conscience?
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Priest
Released: June 24, 1964
Type: Movie
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.
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Väikese Illimari radadel
Title: Väikese Illimari radadel
Released: September 7, 1962
Type: Movie
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Uninvited Guests
Title: Uninvited Guests
Released: May 17, 1959
Type: Movie
Four Estonians who have escaped to Sweden during the war return to Soviet Estonia in the 1950s. The four saboteurs work for the Western Secret Service. Difficulties arise when they cross the border with an injured companion - the three have to decide what to do next.
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Капитан первого ранга
Title: Капитан первого ранга
Character: Episodic role
Released: December 28, 1958
Type: Movie
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Andrus's Happiness
Title: Andrus's Happiness
Released: July 18, 1955
Type: Movie
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VMV 6
Title: VMV 6
Character: Captain
Released: February 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Coast guard battles the bootleggers who smuggle booze across the Gulf of Finland during the prohibition law.