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Filmmaker · Lithuania

Vytautas Žalakevičius

Died in 1996

Vytautas Žalakevičius was born on 14 April 1930 in Kaunas. After two years of engineering studies at the University of Kaunas, he entered the Moscow film institute in the class of Mikheil Chiaureli and Grigori Alexandrov, graduating in 1956, and became artistic director of the Lithuanian studio. A director at Mosfilm from 1974 to 1980, he then returned to head the Lithuanian studio. The author of more than twenty screenplays, he founded an independent studio in 1990 with Kęstutis Petrulis and died in Vilnius on 12 November 1996.

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