Cast

Donatas Banionis

1924 – 2014

Active years (films on this site)

1969–1981

Genres

DramaAdventureMysteryWar

Schools and movements

Contemporary European Art CinemaSoviet Poetic CinemaDocumentary and Essay FilmSlow and Contemplative Cinema

Directors worked with

Mikhail Kalatozov1 filmAndrei Tarkovsky1 filmAlmantas Grikevičius1 film

Biography

Donatas Banionis was a Soviet and Lithuanian stage and film actor and theatre director. He has more than 80 credited roles in cinema and is best known for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's Solaris as Kris Kelvin. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Awards and honours

International

• Order of the October Revolution 1981
• Order of Friendship 1999
• Order of Honour 2009
• Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour 2014
• Commander of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
• National Prize of East Germany
• Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour

National / local

• USSR State Prize 1967
• People's Artist of the USSR 1974
• USSR State Prize 1977
• Lithuanian National Prize
• Meritorious Artist of the Lithuanian SSR
• Order for Merits to Lithuania

3 films on this site

1. The Red Tent 1969 · Mikhail Kalatozov · IMDb 6.8 · Cast
2. Solaris 1972 · Andrei Tarkovsky · IMDb 7.9 · Cast
3. Faktas 1981 · Almantas Grikevičius · IMDb 7.0 · Cast