13 Facts About Juozas Budraitis

Juozas Budraitis has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1966.

Juozas Budraitis starred in the Soviet film Wounded Game, which was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.

Juozas Stanislavas Budraitis was born on 6 October 1940 in the village of Liepynai, Kelme, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union in a peasant family.

Juozas Budraitis was already finishing his third year externally and afterwards transferred to the correspondence department.

From 1968 to 1976 Juozas Budraitis was filming in the republic and in films of other Soviet directors.

In 1983, Juozas Budraitis played one of the main roles in the television series The Rich Man, the Poor Man, based on the novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw, and starred in the romantic comedy Carousel.

In February 2008, Juozas Budraitis performed for the first time on the Russian stage, having played one of the main roles in the new performance of the Presnyakov brothers PAB, the premiere of which took place in Theatrium on Serpukhovka.

Since the late 1960s Juozas Budraitis has been professionally engaged in photography.

Juozas Budraitis's works are exhibited in prestigious galleries of Moscow and St Petersburg.

Since 1995, Juozas Budraitis has lived in Moscow, where he started working as a cultural adviser at the Lithuanian Embassy; in 2001 he became a cultural attache at the Lithuanian Embassy in Russia.

Juozas Budraitis is the author of a multi-year program of Lithuanian culture in Russia under the name "Window to Lithuania".

In 2002 Juozas Budraitis was given the diplomatic rank of Extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister.

In 2000, for his great contribution to the preservation and development of Russian-Lithuanian cooperation in the field of culture, Juozas Budraitis was awarded the Order of Friendship.