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Heino Mandri

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
54

Gender
Male

Birthday
September 11, 1922 (103 years old)

Place of Birth
Kohtla-Järve, Viru County, Estonia [now Ida-Viru County]

Heino Mandri

Biography

Heino Mandri (September 11, 1922 – December 3, 1990) was an Estonian film and stage actor.

Heino Mandri was born in Kohtla-Järve, but his family moved to Tallinn when Mandri was two years old. In 1946, Mandri graduated in the only class of the short-lived Tallinn Theatre School (1942–1946) set up during the German occupation to carry on the work of the former State School of Performing Arts which had been liquidated during the Soviet occupation in 1940.

In 1948, Mandri was accused in anti-Soviet activities and sentenced for seven years of forced labor. From 1948 to 1954 he served the sentence in the Viatlag prison camp, Lesnoy, Kirov Oblast in Northern Russia.

Mandri was released in 1954 and returned to Estonia, where the Soviet authorities forbade him to get closer than 101 km to Tallinn under the 101st kilometre rule. Mandri settled in Viljandi and worked in Ugala theatre. In 1956 Mandri wrote a personal letter to the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Kliment Voroshilov, after which he got his sentence retroactively shortened to five years allowing him to enter Tallinn again.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Heino Mandri casually appeared on Estonian national TV delivering his lines with impeccable command of the Estonian language. In Soviet films, Heino Mandri was usually cast as characters who were officers of the Wehrmacht, German businessmen, or American spies.

Heino Mandri was acquitted of all political charges and fully rehabilitated in his rights only shortly before his death in 1990.

Known For

Acting

2008Nazis and Blondesas (archive footage)
1991Surmatantsas
1990Entrance to Labyrinthas Zigmund Khyutter
1990Entrance to the Mazeas Zigmund Khyutter - baron
1989Faulty Bridesas Mart
1989Doctor Stockmannas Aslaksen
1989I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Hereas Mart's Father
1988Dance Around the Steam Boileras
1988Bay of Happinessas
1987In One Hundred Years in Mayas President of the Court Martial
1987The Joys of Midlifeas Uncle Raul
1986Chicherinas (as H. Mandri)
1986The Secret Agent’s Endas Кинг
1986In the Time of the Law of the Wolfas
1985The R Documentas Donald Radenbau
1984European Storyas
1984Two Couples and Lonelinessas Boss
1984Russia Is Youngas граф Пипер
1983Arabella, the Pirate's Daughteras Warship Captain
1981Murder on the 31st Flooras first director of the concern
1981Rowan Gatesas Lembit
1981Mercedes Runs Away from the Chaseas Abt, German Colonel
1979A Woman Heats the Saunaas Moorits
1978The Pastor of Reigias Judge
1977Time to Live, Time to Loveas
1976Portas
1976Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariatas Iurla
1976Indrekas Timusk
1975Countermeasureas
1975The Red Violinas
1974Spring in the Forestas Forester
1974Inimeste majaas Narrator
1973Fire in the Nightas
1972Forest Captainas Accordion
1971Lack of Windas Chairman of the Collective Farm
1971Gladiatoras Officer
1971Summer Games of Insectsas Head Referee (voice)
1971Pedestriansas Narrator
1970He Wasn't Aloneas German officer at the kommandatur
1970Between Three Plaguesas Topff
1970Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulgeas
1970Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthroughas
1969The Red Tentas Man Holding a Horn on the Kingsbay Pier (uncredited)
1969A Tale of a Chekistas Jundt
1968The Dead Seasonas
1967Exploded Hellas Emar
1967What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?as Põdrus
1966Supernovaas Paalmann
1965The New Devil of Hellsbottomas Reverend
1965We Were Eighteenas Trossi
1964The Larkas Standartenfuhrer
1963Hills Like White Elephantsas
1959Uninvited Guestsas
1957Pöördelas

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