The year 1960 often marks the birth of Lithuanian cinema due to the fact that the picture "Living Heroes" was released at that time. In this movie, Bronius Babkauskas amazingly played, not a newcomer at all, for the first time in this project he announced the range of his acting talent.
Actor of rare talent
Famous People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR Bronius Adamovich Babkauskas is the brightest representative of Soviet and national cinema. He graduated from the acting studio, where his mentor was the outstanding Lithuanian director J. Miltinis, at the age of nineteen he joined the acting corpses of the Panevezys Theater. Currently, the theater, which raised a lot of first-class artists, is known far beyond the borders of the republic.
From the very beginning of his creative career, Bronius Babkauskas showed himself to be an actor of rare talent, who harmoniously combined fiery temperament and keen intellect and an amazing ability to transform.
The difficult psychological images in the plays of the playwrights Gerhart Hauptmann and Henrik Ibsen in the repertoire of Babkauskas ideally got along with the everyday mundane character of the characters from the works of V. S. Rozov and M. A. Sholokhov, who are adjacent to the comic characters invented by Pierre Beaumarchais and Eugene Labisch.
The list of cinematographic and theatrical works of the performer gives the right to judge the degree of versatility of his talent, his amazing versatility. Trying to categorically determine the usual role of the actor is rather difficult, rather impossible.
In the image of an antagonist
At a certain stage in his career, Bronius Babkauskas became a hostage to one image. For a long time he played the role of exclusively negative heroes, for example, in the films Adam Wants to Be a Man, Dawn Over the Neman, Cannonade, Living Heroes, Aliens. Although the characters of the actor in the above films were different - by means of expressiveness, by the tasks set by the director, and by the material, Babkauskas was firmly entrenched as an antagonist. But even embodying the image of a negative hero, Bronus has always been natural and organic. Therefore, the soon-established list of negative characters was inexorably shaken by a way that was completely unrelated to the existing role of the actor.
Role change
In The Chronicles of One Day, the performer played the old communist Rimshu. In addition to everyday and psychological certainty, this acting work of Bronius Babkauskas is distinguished by moral strength, which subjugates the attention of the viewer. Following Rimsha was followed by a no less positive and interesting image of his father in the touching film "Girl and the Echo", the old and wise life peasant from "Nobody Wanted to Die." In the action-packed film "Keys to Paradise", the performer played the role of bath attendant Arvid Vitols. This image was psychologically complex and characteristic.
But neither the role of the bathhouse attendant nor many others could deplete the diversity of the acting personality of Bronius Adamovich Babkauskas.
The actor died in October 1975, he was 54 years old.