Arūnas Žebriūnas
Персональная информация
- Известность
- Directing
- Всего проектов
- 19
- Пол
- Male
- Дата рождения
- August 8, 1930
- Дата смерти
- September 9, 2013
- Место рождения
- Kaunasб Kaunas, Lithuania
- Другие имена
- Витаутас-Арунас Жебрюнас
Биография
Arūnas Žebriūnas (8 August 1930 — 9 September 2013) was a Lithuanian film director.
The son of a military officer and grew up excelling in basketball and rowing. In 1955, Žebriūnas graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts with a degree in Architecture and joined the Lithuanian Film Studio. He made his directorial debut in 1959, directing the chapter ‘The Last Shot’ from The Living Heroes. His 1964 film The Girl and the Echo won the Majority’s Silver Sail award at Locarno Film Festival.
In 1999, Žebriūnas directed his final film, Lietuvos prisikėlimas, with Aloyzas Jančoras. This documentary presents the history of Lithuania’s independence movement Sąjūdis, of which Žebriūnas himself was a member. In 2010, he was awarded a Golden Crane at the Lithuanian Film Awards for his contribution to Lithuanian film.
