Juozas Kisielius (Lithuania Juozas Kisielius; June 22, 1949, Yoniškis – May 10, 1991, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of Lithuania, Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1983).
As a child, Juozas Kiselius dreamed of becoming a forester, but after school he entered the Vilnius Conservatory at the Department of Acting. The young actor began to work on the stage already in his student years (play “Your Island”). After graduating in 1972, Juozas began working at
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Juozas Kisielius (Lithuania Juozas Kisielius; June 22, 1949, Yoniškis – May 10, 1991, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of Lithuania, Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1983).
As a child, Juozas Kiselius dreamed of becoming a forester, but after school he entered the Vilnius Conservatory at the Department of Acting. The young actor began to work on the stage already in his student years (play “Your Island”).
After graduating in 1972, Juozas began working at the State Academic Drama Theatre of the Lithuanian SSR. The first, as well as the most favorite work in the theater for the actor was the role of Charlie in Sheridan’s School of Vilification. Kiselyus gave many years of his life to the theater and played a large number of interesting memorable roles (Shakespeare's Fenton ("Windsor heiresses") and Edmund ("King Lear"), this is Jan in Kruchkovsky's "First Day of Freedom", and Busygin in Vampilov's "Eldest Son", and many other heroes. Juozas made his film debut at the age of 25 in small roles in the films “Lost Home” and “Wreath of Oak Leaves”. The main role came in 1977 with the role of the leader of the Tallinn Bolsheviks Anton Sommer in the film "The price of death ask the dead."
The role in the film by Almantas Grykevicius “Face on a Target” became especially expensive for the actor, who for the first time managed to play a negative character, breaking out of the role of decent, honest and romantic heroes.
Real fame and popularity came to Juozas Kiselius after
The Long Road in the Dunes Director A. Brench. The epic covered the life of Latvia from 1939 to the early 1970s and was filmed for two years. The role made the actor incredibly popular. Audiences sent him letters from all over the Soviet Union, and directors flooded with new offers.
Subsequent roles were again the same type, not going beyond the role of a positive hero. And over time, the paintings themselves were forgotten. Thus, Juozas remained in the memory of the audience as an actor of one role.
In perestroika years began the collapse of cinema, and, as a result, the lack of demand for actors. Juozas was very worried about the lack of work, plus the doctors found him a rare heart defect.
On May 7, 1991, on the way home from the screen test, the actor felt ill. The ambulance took him to the hospital, where three days later the actor died.
Every year in the homeland of Juozas Kiselius in the city of Yoniškis, at the school where he studied, an acting reading competition is held in memory of the actor and just a wonderful person. /