Russian and Lithuanian outlets are reporting that Donatas Banionis––the Lithuanian actor best known to Western moviegoers as the star of Andrei Tarkovsky’s sci-fi classic Solaris––has died following a ...

The Russian president apparently joined the KGB after seeing the Lithuanian, who went on to star in Solaris and died Thursday at 90, in a Soviet-era spy flick. Senior Political Reporter Why did ...

Iconic Soviet-era actor Donatas Banionis has died in Vilnius at the age of 90. Banionis's son, Raimundas, said the prominent actor known by millions in former Soviet republics died on September 4 of a ...