Heino Mandri
Acting • Born 1922-09-11 – 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.
Filmography
52 credits
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Movie • 1968
Hills Like White Elephants
Movie • 1963
Liberation: Breakthrough
Movie • 1969
German Officer
Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter
Movie • 1982
Warship Captain
The Dead Season
Movie • 1968
The Joys of Midlife
Movie • 1987
Uncle Raul
Chicherin
Movie • 1986
(as H. Mandri)
Entrance to Labyrinth
Movie • 1990
Zigmund Khyutter
We Were Eighteen
Movie • 1965
Trossi
Nazis and Blondes
Movie • 2008
(archive footage)
The Lark
Movie • 1964
Standartenfuhrer
Inimeste maja
Movie • 1974
Narrator
In One Hundred Years in May
Movie • 1987
President of the Court Martial
Faulty Brides
Movie • 1989
Mart
European Story
Movie • 1984
Pedestrians
Movie • 1971
Narrator
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Movie • 1976
Iurla
Spring in the Forest
Movie • 1974
Forester
Doctor Stockmann
Movie • 1989
Aslaksen
The Pastor of Reigi
Movie • 1978
Judge
What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?
Movie • 1967
Põdrus
Forest Captain
Movie • 1972
Accordion
Exploded Hell
Movie • 1967
Uninvited Guests
Movie • 1959
Time to Live, Time to Love
Movie • 1977
Mercedes Runs Away from the Chase
Movie • 1981
Abt, German Colonel
The Secret Agent’s End
Movie • 1986
Кинг
The Red Violin
Movie • 1975
Between Three Plagues
Movie • 1970
Topff
Dance Around the Steam Boiler
Movie • 1988
Summer Games of Insects
Movie • 1971
Head Referee (voice)
A Woman Heats the Sauna
Movie • 1979
Moorits
A Tale of a Chekist
Movie • 1969
Jundt
The New Devil of Hellsbottom
Movie • 1965
Reverend
Lack of Wind
Movie • 1971
Chairman of the Collective Farm
Indrek
Movie • 1976
Timusk
I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
Movie • 1989
Mart's Father
In the Time of the Law of the Wolf
Movie • 1986
Rowan Gates
Movie • 1981
Lembit
Supernova
Movie • 1966
Paalmann
Pöördel
Movie • 1957
Fire in the Night
Movie • 1973
Surmatants
Movie • 1991
Murder on the 31st Floor
Movie • 1981
first director of the concern
Bay of Happiness
Movie • 1988
Gladiator
Movie • 1971
Officer
Port
Movie • 1976
Countermeasure
Movie • 1975
Two Couples and Loneliness
Movie • 1984
Boss
Entrance to the Maze
TV • 1990
Zigmund Khyutter - baron
Russia Is Young
TV • 1984
граф Пипер
The R Document
TV • 1985
Donald Radenbau