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 ...

Something is amiss on the space station at the center of Solaris (1972). Sent to evaluate the facility, psychologist Kris Kelvin (played by Donatas Banionis) arrives to find it in grim disarray, its ...

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 ...