Eugenia Pleshkite is a famous Soviet and Lithuanian actress. She played in the theater and cinema. Her most honorary title is People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR.
Actress Biography
Eugenia Pleshkite was born in 1938. She was born in a small village Giliorigis, located in Lithuania. Since childhood, she dreamed of becoming an actress, often arranged performances for family and their friends. Therefore, no one was surprised when, after school, Eugenia Pleshkite entered the acting department of the State Lithuanian Conservatory.
After his graduation, she worked as an actress in the drama theater of the city of Kaunas. In 1963, she was accepted into the academic drama theater of the Lithuanian SSR. There she worked for only two years, moving to the State Youth Theater of Lithuania. She gave this theater platform more than twenty-five years of her creative career, fulfilling her main roles.
Nevertheless, Eugenia Pleshkite won fame as a film actress.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the heroine of our article lived in San Francisco for some time, but then returned to Vilnius.
The story of her brother Jonas was well known, who in 1961 stole a sea barge, on which he emigrated to Sweden.
Movie debut
Actress Eugenia Pleshkite performed her first film role in 1961. It was a military drama of Raimondas Vabalas and Arunas Zhebrunas - "Cannonade".
The film takes the viewer in the last months of World War II. During the Nazi retreat from a small Lithuanian village, a fist named Stankus disappears. During the years of the German occupation, he was a headman, therefore he is afraid of fair retaliation for his deeds. There is no stankus, but the peasants do not dare to divide its plot, although they are in dire need of land. Fights continue nearby, cannonade sounds are constantly heard. Moreover, getting to the ground is not easy at all, everything around is mined.
Then one of the villagers named Budris decides to go to the city so that the authorities decide how everything should be.
At the same time, Deauville, the daughter of a local teacher, whose role Pleshkite just plays, returns to her native village. She worked throughout the war in the hospital, leaving the village at the very beginning of the war, along with the retreating Red Army. At home, she finds out that her father died. It is difficult for her to meet her childhood friend Povilas, the son of a fist. He did not follow his father, now he is confused and devastated, not believing that in a village destroyed by war, someday peaceful life will be restored.
Filmography
The debut role of the actress was quite successful. In the late 60s, she became one of the most sought-after Lithuanian actresses. In 1966, she starred in the drama of Raimondas Vabalas "Stairway to Heaven" about the inhabitants of an abandoned farm, who hide both from the Communists and from the "forest brothers".
Then she took part in the film almanac "Adult Games, " the drama Algirdas Araminas's "Find Me."
In 1970, she starred in Marlene Hutsiev’s military drama "It Was the Month of May" about one of the first weeks of peaceful life after the end of the war. The events of the film unfold in Germany. A detachment of Soviet soldiers stops at a stand by a wealthy peasant who lives with his young wife and son, a schoolboy.
Also worth noting are such pictures by Pleshkite as the drama of Raimondas Vabalas "Stone on Stone", the historical film by Marionas Gedris "Wounds of Our Land". In 1972, she starred in the biographical picture about the destruction of the Prussian people by the Teutonic Order "Herkus Mantas", as well as in the family comedy "Funny Stories" based on the stories of Nikolai Nosov.
"Purely English murder"
Pleshkite performed her most famous role in the detective Samson Samsonov's “Purely English Murder”.
Pleshkite appears in the image of Mrs. Carstairs, a cold-blooded killer who commits a daring crime in the family castle of Lord Warbeck, where many friends and relatives gather for Christmas. In the midst of fun, his only heir unexpectedly dies. And since it is not possible to call the police due to heavy snowfall, one of the guests, Dr. Botvink, is taking up the investigation. What is happening is complicated by the fact that there is a complex and ambiguous relationship between the participants.
Success on screen
Interestingly, the actress starred until 1991. During this time, she managed to replenish her filmography with dozens of films. At 53, she completed her creative career.
Among her works, it is especially worth noting: detective Alois Branch “Gifts by phone”, the military drama Almantas Grikevičius “Fact”, the melodrama Anatoly Gorlo and Vadim Derbenev “Woman in White”, the drama Vladimir Bortko “Without a Family”, the feature film Dzidra Ritenberg “The Most long straw."
