Regimantas Adomaitis

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Regimantas Adomaitis (born January 31, 1937 in Šiauliai ) is a Lithuanian film and theater actor.

Life

Regimantas Adomaitis lived in his childhood in Šimoniai ( Rajongemeinde Pasvalys ) and learned in Migoniai with Pasvalys . After graduating from the Pasvalys Middle School in 1954, Adomaitis completed a five-year diploma course at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Vilnius University before he decided to study acting at the LMTA in Vilnius . Theater engagements in Kaunas , Vilnius and Marijampolė soon followed .

His film career began with the Soviet film production Nobody wanted to die (Russian: "Никто не хотел умирать") (1966), previously in 1964 he only had a small role in a film. In 1971 he played in Grigori Kosinzews König Lear (Russian "Король Лир"); But he did not gain international fame until 1973 with the Soviet film Das süße Wort Freiheit (Russian: "Это сладкое слово - свобода!") In the same year DEFA director Günter Reisch Adomaitis played the leading role in his film Wolz - Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchists .

The DEFA feature film The Fiancé with Jutta Wachowiak brought him the National Prize of the GDR in 1981 . In 1985 he was honored as a People's Artist of the USSR . In addition to his acting activities, he was also increasingly involved in politics. He co-founded the Sąjūdis Independence Movement in 1987.

Adomaitis played in many film and television productions and was active again in some German television productions in the mid-1990s. Today he lives with his wife, the singer Eugenija Bajorytė , in Vilnius and works as a performer at the National Theater of Lithuania in Vilnius.

He was married to Eugenija Bajorytė (1941-2011).

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SURNAME Adomaitis, Regimantas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adomajtis, Regimantas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian film and theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Šiauliai