Raimondas-Petras Vabalas (5 March 1937 in Paris - 25 December 2001 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian film director.[1]
Biography
Graduated from Panevėžys secondary school, studied at the Panevėžys Drama Theatre Studio. In 1956 he entered and in 1964 graduated from the Moscow Union Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), under the supervision of Lev Kuleshov and Aleksandra Khokhlova. Since 1952 actor of Panevėžys Drama Theatre, assistant director. He made his cinema debut in 1961 with the film "Kanonada". All his films were made in the Lithuanian Film Studio. After finishing the film "Miškais prihaja autuo" (The Fall is Coming in Miracles), he did not return to cinema again. He edited Vince Seliokas's memoirs of the post-war struggles of the Lithuanian partisans, including Vabalas's parents.2] During his serious illness, he collected a large amount of biographical material on the partisans and the underground, which he submitted to the Lithuanian Encyclopaedia.
In his youth he was married to the actress Gražina Balandytė. His second wife was Elvyra Žebertavičiūtė.
