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Algis Iozasovich Arlauskas Pinedo (Russian: Альгис Иозасович Арлаускас; born 7 August 1957) is a Russian-Spanish actor, director and theater teacher.[1]
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 Algis Arlauskas | |
| Born | Algis Iozasovich Arlauskas Pinedo 7 August 1957 Moscow, Russia |
| Citizenship | Russia |
| Education | Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
| Years active | 1973–present |
| Movement | Stanislavski's system and Russian method acting |
| Spouse | |
| Family | Olga Arlauskas |
Life and career
editAlgis Arlauskas was born on 7 August 1957 in Moscow, then the Soviet Union (now Russia). His father, Ionas Mikolasovich Arlauskas (born in 1920), was a leader of the Lithuanian Communist Party and was condemned to work camps and his mother an evacuee from Bilbao (Basque Country) following the Spanish Civil War in 1937 (these evacuees are known as "war children").[2]
In 1978 he graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute (Higher School of Drama attached to the Vakhtangov Theater in Moscow), and in 1987 he graduated from the Film Directing faculty of the State Institute of Cinematography – VGIK (workshop of A. Kochetkov). He was also from 1978 to 1983 an actor of the Moscow Young Spectators Theater.
Between 1989 and 1995 he worked as a professor of film directing and screenwriting at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography – VGIK (Faculty of Documentary Film).
In 1991, as a returnee, he arrived in Bilbao with his former wife, the actress Marina Shimanskaya, and their 2 children to make a series of documentaries on the Children of the Spanish Civil War entitled Living and Dying in Russia, and after offering him several projects as a director, he remained to reside in the Biscayan capital.
He has worked as an actor, director and screenwriter in various film and television projects in the Basque Country and Spain. In 2008 he returned to work on Russian film projects.
He speaks Russian, Spanish, Basque, English, Italian and Portuguese.
Filmography
edit- 1974, Grumete de la Flota del Norte, Gorky Studio URSS
- 1982, Sportloto-82, Mosfilm URSS
- 1983, Soborno, TV Central URSS
- 1986, Peter the Great, NBC USA
- 2010, Los hombres de Paco, Antena 3
- 2011 – 2013, El barco, Antena 3
- 2014, Hermanos, Telecinco
- 2014 – 2015, El Príncipe, Telecinco
- 2015, B&b, de boca en boca, Telecinco
- 2015 – 2016, Amar es para siempre, Antena 3
- 2016, El ministerio del tiempo, La 1
- 2018, Acacias 38, La 1[3]
- 2019, Vota Juan, TNT Spain
- 2020, Caronte, Amazon Prime
- 2021, La Fortuna, Movistar+ Spain
- 2022, In from the cold, Netflix USA
References
edit- ^ "Альгис Арлаускас". Кино-Театр.Ру. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
- ^ "Niños de Rusia entre las garras de Stalin y los ojos de la CIA". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). December 14, 2017. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
- ^ "Algis Arlauskas se incorpora al reparto de 'Acacias 38'". Cultura en Serie (in Spanish). July 5, 2018. Retrieved 2022-04-06.