Saturday, October 18, 2025

Jonas Gricius

Jonas Gricius (1928 –2021) was a Lithuanian cinematographer, known for his work on a number of classical films starting from the late 1950s, including Hamlet, The Girl and the Echo, and The Blue Bird.

In 1954 he graduated from the All-Union Institute of Cinematography, a course by Boris Volchek. He worked at the film studio Lenfilm, as an assistant to director Andrei Moskvin. Since 1958, he was Operator of the Lithuanian Film Studio (LKS) and Director of the Lithuanian Film Studio (1978–1989).

Gricius died on 1 February 2021, at the age of 92. 

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