Lina Braknytė (19 October 1952,
Vilnius
Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urb ...
) is a
Lithuanian actress. She was voted the Best Actress in the republican film festival in 1967. She retired after several films and became Lina Paknenya.
Life
She played several roles during the
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
era, from 1964 to 1972. She is well known for playing lead role in 1964 movie
The Girl and the Echo. The film is in
Lithuanian and is known as ''The Last Day of Vacations'' in Lithuania. The movie, based on a story by
Yuri Nagibin, depicts a young girl Vika enjoying the last days of summer vacations in a sea resort somewhere in the south. A scene where she is depicted swimming nude was criticized by teachers from
Klaipėda
Klaipėda (; ; german: Memel; pl, Kłajpeda; russian: Клайпеда; sgs, Klaipieda) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. The capital of the eponymous county, it is the third largest city and the only major seaport in Lithuania ...
who requested city officials to forbid its distribution. For her role in ''Dubravka'', Braknytė was awarded the Best Actress in the republican film festival in 1967.
After high school, Braknytė moved to Moscow to study at the
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, but she was not successful and returned to Vilnius. She did not act in any other films.
Filmography
* 1964 - ''
The Girl and the Echo''
(Девочка и эхо / Paskutinė atostogų diena)
* 1965 - ''
Two in Love'' (Двое)
* 1966 - ''
Three Fat Men
''Three Fat Men'' (Три толстяка) written in 1924, by Yury Olesha, was published in 1928.
It was the first revolutionary fairy tale in Soviet literature. The critical reaction at first was varied. V. Boichevsky in an article "How Storie ...
''(Три толстяка)
* 1967 - ''
Dubravka'' (Дубравка)
* 1971 - ''
The Sea of Our Hope'' (Море нашей надежды)
* 1972 - ''
Last Fort'' (Последний форт)
References
External links
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1952 births
Living people
Actresses from Vilnius
Lithuanian child actresses
Lithuanian film actresses
Soviet child actresses
Soviet film actresses
20th-century Lithuanian actresses