Tadas Blinda: The Beginning (Lithuanian: Tadas Blinda. Pradžia) is a 2011 Lithuanian adventure film, directed by Donatas Ulvydas, based on the 1987 Rimantas Šavelis novel Tadas Blinda and on the legendary history of the 19th-century outlaw Tadas Blinda.

• Mantas Jankavičius as Tadas Blinda
• Agnė Ditkovskytė as Kristina Gruinytė
• Vidas Petkevičius as Bernardas Gruinius
• Tatyana Lyutayeva as Konstancija Gruinienė
• Mykolas Vildžiūnas as Janek Razumowski
• Dainius Kazlauskas as Edmundas
• Jokūbas Bareikis as Motiejus
• Andrius Kaniava as Adam Razumowski
• Donatas Banionis as Mikhail Muravyov
• Antanas Šurna as Snegiryov

Reception[edit]

The film became the most commercially successful film in the history of independent Lithuania.[1] The film attendance reached 300,000 people and its revenue totaled about €1,100,000 EUR