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