Regimantas Adomaitis
Regimantas Adomaitis ( born January 31, 1937 in Šiauliai) is a Lithuanian film and theater actor.
Life
Adomaitis completed a five-year physics and maths degree at the University of Vilnius, before he decided to study acting in Vilnius. Soon followed theatrical engagements in Kaunas, Vilnius and Marijampolė.
His film career began with the Soviet film production Nobody wanted to die (Russian " Никто не хотел умирать " ) ( 1966), before 1964 he had a small role in a movie. In 1971, he played King Lear in Grigori Kosinzews (Russian " Король Лир "); but he gained international prominence in 1973 with the Soviet film The sweet word freedom (Russian " Это сладкое слово - свобода " ) in the same year offered DEFA director Günter Reisch Adomaitis the lead role in his film Wolz - life and transfiguration of a German anarchists on.
The DEFA feature film The fiancee with Jutta Wachowiak earned him the 1981 National Prize of the GDR. In 1985 he was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR. In addition to his acting career, he became increasingly involved politically. He was co-founder of the movement for independence of Lithuania Sąjūdis 1987.
Adomaitis starred in many film and television productions and was in the mid -1990s, again in several German TV productions worked. Today he lives with his wife, singer Eugenija Bajorytė, in Vilnius and works as an actor at the National Theatre of Lithuania in Vilnius.