Heino Mandri

Heino Mandri 11 September 1922 3 December 1990 was an Estonian film and stage actor designated Peoples Artist of the Estonian SSR 1986 Heino Mandri was born in the independent Republic of Estonia He studied acting at Tallinn State Conservatory now the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and graduated in 1946 when postwar Estonia was part of the Soviet Union At that time Heino Mandri was accused of antiSoviet activities and sentenced to imprisonment and hard labor in Gulag From 1948 to 1954 he served the sentence in the Viatlag prison camp Lesnoy Kirov Oblast in Northern Russia In 1954 Heino Mandri returned from the Viatlag prison camp to Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic At that time he underwent Soviet censorship procedures before he was permitted to resume his acting career under the Soviet administration