Herardo Kontreras

Biography

Herardo Kontreras (Spanish: Gerardo Contreras, Russian: Херардо Контрерас; April 16, 1940, Mozhaysk – March 1, 2009) was an Estonian actor of Basque origin.

His parents fled to the Soviet Union from the Franco regime. His father had been a pilot in the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War, and his mother a teacher.

In 1967, Contreras graduated from the Ivan Karpovich Karpenko-Kary State Institute of Theater, Cinema and Television in Kiev. From 1967 until his death, he was an actor at the Russian Drama Theater.

Known For

American Mountains
American Mountains

Filmography

2007 Georg
as Worker in Estonia
2005 Shop of Dreams
as Stjopa
2005 The Idiot
as
2002 Lilya 4-ever
as Anna's Neighbour
1997 All My Lenins
as Russian Villager
1994 American Mountains
as
1994 The Firewater
as Janitor
1993 City Unplugged
as Doctor
1992 Время вашей жизни
as
1988 Dance Around the Steam Boiler
as
1985 Puud olid...
as Alajaani Märt
1985 Long Memory
as
1984 Lurich
as Wagon Accompanist
1976 Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
as Unanyan
1971 Hail, Mary!
as