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.

Known For

Russia Is Young

Entrance to the Maze

The Red Tent

Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge

Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough

The Secret Agent’s End

Entrance to Labyrinth

A Tale of a Chekist

All Movies (51)

• Nazis and Blondes2008 · as (archive footage)
• Surmatants1991
• Entrance to Labyrinth1990 · as Zigmund Khyutter
• Faulty Brides1989 · as Mart
• Doctor Stockmann1989 · as Aslaksen
• I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here1989 · as Mart's Father
• Dance Around the Steam Boiler1988
• Bay of Happiness1988
• In One Hundred Years in May1987 · as President of the Court Martial
• The Joys of Midlife1987 · as Uncle Raul
• Chicherin1986 · as (as H. Mandri)
• The Secret Agent’s End1986 · as Кинг
• In the Time of the Law of the Wolf1986
• European Story1984
• Two Couples and Loneliness1984 · as Boss
• Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter1983 · as Warship Captain
• Murder on the 31st Floor1981 · as first director of the concern
• Rowan Gates1981 · as Lembit
• Mercedes Runs Away from the Chase1981 · as Abt, German Colonel
• A Woman Heats the Sauna1979 · as Moorits
• The Pastor of Reigi1978 · as Judge
• Time to Live, Time to Love1977
• Port1976
• Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat1976 · as Iurla
• Indrek1976 · as Timusk
• Countermeasure1975
• The Red Violin1975
• Spring in the Forest1974 · as Forester
• Inimeste maja1974 · as Narrator
• Fire in the Night1973
• Forest Captain1972 · as Accordion
• Lack of Wind1971 · as Chairman of the Collective Farm
• Gladiator1971 · as Officer
• Pedestrians1971 · as Narrator
• Summer Games of Insects1971 · as Head Referee (voice)
• He Wasn't Alone1970 · as German officer at the kommandatur
• Between Three Plagues1970 · as Topff
• Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge1970
• Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough1970
• The Red Tent1969 · as Man Holding a Horn on the Kingsbay Pier (uncredited)
• A Tale of a Chekist1969 · as Jundt
• The Dead Season1968
• Exploded Hell1967 · as Emar
• What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?1967 · as Põdrus
• Supernova1966 · as Paalmann
• The New Devil of Hellsbottom1965 · as Reverend
• We Were Eighteen1965 · as Trossi
• The Lark1964 · as Standartenfuhrer
• Hills Like White Elephants1963
• Uninvited Guests1959
• Pöördel1957

All TV Shows (3)

• Entrance to the Maze1990 · as Zigmund Khyutter - baron
• The R Document1985 · as Donald Radenbau
• Russia Is Young1984 · as граф Пипер