Heino Mandri

Known for ActingBorn 1922-09-11Died 1990-12-03Kohtla-Järve, Viru County, Estonia [now Ida-Viru County]

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.Read more

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Supernova

Fire in the Night

Chicherin

Two Couples and Loneliness

Time to Live, Time to Love

The Red Violin

A Tale of a Chekist

Murder on the 31st Floor

Exploded Hell

Bay of Happiness

In One Hundred Years in May

In the Time of the Law of the Wolf

The R Document

Summer Games of Insects

Pöördel

European Story

Gladiator

Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge

Surmatants

Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter

Rowan Gates

The Pastor of Reigi

Countermeasure

Lack of Wind

Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough

Between Three Plagues

Dance Around the Steam Boiler

We Were Eighteen

Uninvited Guests

Russia Is Young

Pedestrians

Entrance to the Maze

Nazis and Blondes

I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here

The Red Tent

The Secret Agent’s End

The Joys of Midlife

A Woman Heats the Sauna

The Lark

Mercedes Runs Away from the Chase

The Dead Season

Spring in the Forest

The New Devil of Hellsbottom

What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?

Entrance to Labyrinth

Forest Captain

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Doctor Stockmann