Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1922-09-11
Day of Death
1990-12-03
Place of Birth
Kohtla-Järve, Ida-Viru County, Estonia
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.
Filmography (51)
Nazis and Blondes
2008
Surmatants
1991
Entrance to Labyrinth
1990Faulty Brides
1989
Doctor Stockmann
1989
I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
1989
Dance Around the Steam Boiler
1988
Bay of Happiness
1988
In One Hundred Years in May
1987
The Joys of Midlife
1987
Chicherin
1986
The Secret Agent’s End
1986
In the Time of the Law of the Wolf
1986
