Algamantas Masiulis is a Soviet and Lithuanian film and theater actor. People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR He was the 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 shot, 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 decided in his youth that he would become a famous actor. He was attracted by the opportunity to reveal all emotions, talent and ability completely.
After school, the graduate decided to get an education in the studio at the Panevezhas Drama Theater. The student studied artistry, the art of reincarnation. He devoted all his time and energy to perfecting his natural talent.
The training was completed in 1948. At that time, Masiulis became one of the best in its release. During his studies, the novice lyceum received a lot of knowledge and experience. The graduate was taken to the Panevezys Theater, which has already become native. Spectators from all over the country came to see the game of a stately and gifted artist.
Theaters immediately noted the talent of a guy from the Miltinis Theater. It was this wonderful director and teacher who discovered the talent of the applicant in time and developed his talent. The troupe consisted of actors who received not only a professional education, but also knew the history of culture, manners, foreign languages. Juozas Miltinis taught them all this.
He worked in its walls Algimantas until 1978. Then the artist moved to the troupe of the academic drama theater of Kaunas. In an interview, the artist admitted that there are no recipes in the art. Creativity cannot be described or explained by formulas. There are only ethical and moral rules. No right to humiliate a person, deprive him
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The short film "The Drowned Man" in 1955 became a real film debut for the theater actor. Misiulis played the role of an official Ionis асаatas, 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 of Lithuanian cinema. However, even before this work, the actor starred in an episode of the film about Ignotas who returned home.
When preparing as an official, Algimantas decided to adhere to a tragicomic direction. He teetered on the brink of gravity and grotesque. The actor of one of the leading theaters in the country at that time already had an excellent school. 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" presented the artist with one of his best characters. The actor developed over time a sustained manner of playing, in expressive formality he had from birth. With a minimum of performance costs, Misiulis sought maximum form acuity. This ability brought the actor to the leading masters of the world of predators.
Each movie hero was clearly distinguished by sharp expressiveness with external restraint, thoughtfulness. The role ranged from the first to the last movement. In addition, a bright appearance became the determinant of the future of the movie. In the theater, the artist was offered diverse characters. The film set gave the villain the role. However, Misulis was also unique here: all his villains were intelligent.
Role for years
The artist’s joking nickname was “the main fascist of the Soviet Union”. The performer himself dreamed of the role of Don Quixote. True, he saw all the directors in the role of "a stranger." According to them, in the performance of Masiulis, spies and SS men were ideal. A figure, habits, a look - they were called the features of an aristocrat, a typical bourgeois, master. Having an intellectual look, the artist "entrenched" in the images of foreigners, Due to the interesting texture and light accent, the blue-eyed blond played the Germans in films about the war, the Americans in films about life in America. And the performer in the role of a fascist debuted on the big screen. And after the role of Willy Schwarzkopf in the epic “Shield and Sword”, all-Union fame came to him.
The character decided to play not according to accepted standards, but otherwise. The hero recalled that the soldiers of the battle hate the war itself, but among the officers there are many educated people who are fit into ideological Nazis.
