Heino Mandri
Known For
Acting
Born
1922-09-11 in Kohtla-Järve, Ida-Viru County, Estonia
Died
1990-12-03
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.
Most Known For
Faulty Brides
as Mart
Russia Is Young
as граф Пипер
Hundiseaduse aegu
The Red Violin
Pedestrians
as Narrator
Forest Captain
as Accordion
The R Document
as Donald Radenbau
Spring in the Forest
as Forester
Uninvited Guests
Lack of Wind
as Chairman of the Collective Farm
Supernova
as Paalmann
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Entrance to the Maze
as Zigmund Khyutter - baron
Gladiator
as Officer
The Pastor of Reigi
as Judge
The New Devil of Hellsbottom
as Reverend
Liberation: Breakthrough
as German Officer
Rowan Gates
as Lembit
The Dead Season
