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.
Acting
Movie
The Red Tent
as Man Holding a Horn on the Kingsbay Pier (uncredited)
1969
Movie
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
1970
Movie
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough
1970
Movie
The Dead Season
1968
Movie
The Lark
as Standartenfuhrer
1964
Movie
The Secret Agent’s End
as Кинг
1986
Movie
Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter
as Warship Captain
1983
Movie
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
as Iurla
1976
Movie
Mercedes Runs Away from the Chase
as Abt, German Colonel
1981
Movie
The New Devil of Hellsbottom
as Reverend
1965
Movie
Entrance to Labyrinth
as Zigmund Khyutter
1990
TV
Russia Is Young
as граф Пипер
1984
Movie
Spring in the Forest
as Forester
1974
Movie
The Joys of Midlife
as Uncle Raul
1987
Movie
Dance Around the Steam Boiler
1988
Movie
A Woman Heats the Sauna
as Moorits
1979
Movie
What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?
as Põdrus
1967
Movie
Doctor Stockmann
as Aslaksen
1989
Movie
Forest Captain
as Accordion
1972
TV
Entrance to the Maze
as Zigmund Khyutter - baron
1990
Movie
We Were Eighteen
as Trossi
1965
Movie
European Story
1984
Movie
Pedestrians
as Narrator
1971
Movie
Exploded Hell
as Emar
1967