Heino Mandri
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.
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Films (51)
Nazis and Blondes
2008 · (archive footage)
Surmatants
1991
Entrance to Labyrinth
1990 · Zigmund Khyutter
Faulty Brides
1989 · Mart
Doctor Stockmann
1989 · Aslaksen
I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
1989 · Mart's Father
Dance Around the Steam Boiler
1988
Bay of Happiness
1988
In One Hundred Years in May
1987 · President of the Court Martial
The Joys of Midlife
1987 · Uncle Raul
Chicherin
1986 · (as H. Mandri)
The Secret Agent’s End
1986 · Кинг
In the Time of the Law of the Wolf
1986
European Story
1984
Two Couples and Loneliness
1984 · Boss
Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter
1983 · Warship Captain
Murder on the 31st Floor
1981 · first director of the concern
Rowan Gates
1981 · Lembit
Mercedes Runs Away from the Chase
1981 · Abt, German Colonel
A Woman Heats the Sauna
1979 · Moorits
The Pastor of Reigi
1978 · Judge
Time to Live, Time to Love
1977
Port
1976
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
1976 · Iurla
Indrek
1976 · Timusk
Countermeasure
1975
The Red Violin
1975
Spring in the Forest
1974 · Forester
Inimeste maja
1974 · Narrator
Fire in the Night
1973
Forest Captain
1972 · Accordion
Lack of Wind
1971 · Chairman of the Collective Farm
Gladiator
1971 · Officer
Pedestrians
1971 · Narrator
Summer Games of Insects
1971 · Head Referee (voice)
He Wasn't Alone
1970 · German officer at the kommandatur
Between Three Plagues
1970 · Topff
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
1970
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough
1970
The Red Tent
1969 · Man Holding a Horn on the Kingsbay Pier (uncredited)
A Tale of a Chekist
1969 · Jundt
The Dead Season
1968
Exploded Hell
1967 · Emar
What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?
1967 · Põdrus
Supernova
1966 · Paalmann
The New Devil of Hellsbottom
1965 · Reverend
We Were Eighteen
1965 · Trossi
The Lark
1964 · Standartenfuhrer
Hills Like White Elephants
1963
Uninvited Guests
1959
Pöördel
1957
