Algis Arlauskas
Algis Iozasovich Arlauskas Pinedo is a Soviet-born Spanish actor, director and theater teacher.
Life and career
Algis Arlauskas was born on 7 August 1957 in Moscow, then the Soviet Union. His father, Yuozas Mikaloyusovich Arlauskas, was a leader of the Lithuanian Communist Party and was condemned to work camps, and his mother an evacuee from Bilbao following the Spanish Civil War in 1937.In 1978, he graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute, and in 1987 he graduated from the Film Directing faculty of the State Institute of Cinematography – VGIK. From 1978 to 1983, he was an actor at the Moscow Young Spectators Theater.
Between 1989 and 1995, he worked as a professor of film directing and screenwriting at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography – VGIK.
In 1991, as a returnee, he arrived in Bilbao with his former wife, the actress Marina Shimanskaya, and their 2 children to make a series of documentaries about the children of the Spanish Civil War entitled Living and Dying in Russia, and after being offered several projects as a director, he decided to continue residing in the Biscayan capital.
He has worked as an actor, director and screenwriter in various film and television projects in the Basque Country and Spain. In 2008, he returned to work on Russian film projects.
He speaks Russian, Spanish, Basque, English, Italian and Portuguese.
Filmography
- 1974, Grumete de la Flota del Norte, Gorky Studio URSS
- 1982, Sportloto-82, Mosfilm URSS
- 1983, Soborno, TV Central URSS
- 1986, Peter the Great, NBC USA
- 2010, Los hombres de Paco, Antena 3
- 2011 – 2013, El barco, Antena 3
- 2014, Hermanos, Telecinco
- 2014 – 2015, El Príncipe, Telecinco
- 2015, B&b, de boca en boca, Telecinco
- 2015 – 2016, Amar es para siempre, Antena 3
- 2016, El ministerio del tiempo, La 1
- 2018, Acacias 38, La 1
- 2019, Vota Juan, TNT Spain
- 2020, Caronte, Amazon Prime
- 2021, La Fortuna, Movistar+ Spain
- 2022, In from the cold, Netflix USA