Eughenia Pleshkite is a famous Soviet and Lithuanian actress. Played in theater and cinema. Her most honorary title is People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR.
Biography of the actress
Eughenia Pleshkite was born in 1938. She was born in the small village of Giliorigis, located on the territory of Lithuania. Since childhood, she dreamed of becoming an actress, often arranged performances for her family and their friends. Therefore, no one was surprised when, after school, Eugenija Pleshkyte entered the acting department of the State Lithuanian Conservatory.
After graduation, she worked as an actress in the drama theater of Kaunas. In 1963, she was admitted to the Academic Drama Theater of the Lithuanian SSR. She worked there for only two years, moving to the State Youth Theater of Lithuania. She devoted more than twenty-five years of her creative career to this theatrical platform, performing her main roles.
But nevertheless, Eugenia Pleshkite won fame as a film actress.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the heroine of our article lived in San Francisco for some time, but then returned to Vilnius.
The story of her brother Jonas, who in 1961year hijacked a sea barge, on which he emigrated to Sweden.
Movie debut
In 1961, actress Eugenia Pleškėtė played her first film role. It was a war drama by Raimondas Vabalas and Arunas Zhebryunas - "Cannonade".
The film takes the viewer to the last months of the Great Patriotic War. During the retreat of the Nazis from a small Lithuanian village, a fist named Stankus disappears. During the years of the German occupation, he was a headman, so he is afraid of fair retribution for the deeds he has done. There is no Stankus, but the peasants do not dare to divide his plot, although they are in dire need of land. Fighting continues nearby, the sounds of cannonade are constantly heard. In addition, getting close to the ground is not easy at all, everything around is mined.
Then one of the villagers named Budris decides to go to the city so that the authorities decide how things should be.
At the same time, Dovile, the daughter of a local teacher, whose role is played by Pleshkite, returns to her native village. She worked in the hospital throughout the war, leaving the village at the very beginning of the war, along with the retreating Red Army. At home, she learns that her father has died. Her meeting with her childhood friend Povilas, the son of a fist, is difficult. He did not follow his father, now he is confused and devastated, not believing that a peaceful life will ever be restored in the war-torn village.
Filmography
The debut role of the actress was quite successful. In the late 1960s, she became one of the mostpopular Lithuanian actresses. In 1966, she starred in the drama "Stairway to Heaven" by Raimondas Vabalas about the inhabitants of an abandoned farm, who are hiding from both the communists and the "forest brothers".
Then she took part in the film almanac "Games of Adults", Algirdas Araminas' drama "Find Me".
In 1970, she starred in Marlena Khutsiev's military drama "It was the month of May" about one of the first weeks of peaceful life after the end of the war. The events of the film take place in Germany. A detachment of Soviet soldiers stays with a rich peasant who lives with his young wife and schoolboy son.
It is also worth noting such films by Pleshkite as the drama of Raimondas Vabalas "Stone on stone", the historical film of Marionas Gedris "Wounds of our land". In 1972, she starred in a biographical film about the destruction of the Prussian people by the Teutonic Order "Herkus Mantas", as well as in the family comedy "Funny Stories" based on the stories of Nikolai Nosov.
A pure English murder
Pleshkite played her most famous role in Samson Samsonov's detective story "Purely English Murder".
Pleshkite appears as Mrs. Carstairs, a cold-blooded killer who commits a daring crime in the family castle of Lord Warbeck, where numerous friends and relatives gather for Christmas. In the midst of the fun, his only heir suddenly dies. And since because ofheavy snowfall, it is not possible to call the police, one of the guests, Dr. Bottwink, takes over the investigation. What is happening is complicated by the fact that there are complex and ambiguous relationships between the participants.
Success on screen
Interestingly, the actress starred until 1991. During this time, she managed to replenish her filmography with dozens of films. At 53, she ended her creative career.
film by Dzidra Ritenberg "The Longest Straw".
A tragic love story
In the personal life of Eugenia Pleshkite there was a sad love story. When she worked at the Kaunas theater in 1974, she met the novice choreographer Boris Moiseev, who was then 20 years old. Moiseev fell in love with the famous actress, literally showering her with flowers and original confessions.
A passionate romance began between Eugenia Pleshkite and Boris Moiseev. Soon, the young man admitted that he did not plan to stay in Kaunas for a long time, he wants to conquer Moscow, and with very extraordinary dance projects. They were based on a very unambiguous allusion to his homosexuality.
Pleshkite, which all this time was actually under the hood of the special services because ofbrother who fled to Sweden, was shocked by such plans. After weighing all the pros and cons, she refused to go to the capital, broke off all relations with Moiseev. At the same time, she hid her pregnancy so as not to interfere with her lover's career.
In 1976, she secretly gave birth. The son of Eugenia Pleshkite was deaf and mute from birth, he was named Amadeus. After this path, Pleshkite and Moiseeva parted completely, it is not even known if they even saw each other again.
The actress died in 2012 in Klaipeda. She was 74 years old.
After her death, Moiseev gave a large number of interviews, talking about the history of their relationship. He tried to get to know her son and grandchildren, even stating that his song "Deaf-Mute Love" was actually dedicated to Amadeus. He also dedicated one of his new clips to his deceased lover.
