Vytautas Žalakevičius (14 April 1930 – 12 November 1996) was a Soviet and Lithuanian film director and screenwriter.
[2] Vytautas Žalakevičius studied mathematics and engineering at Kaunas University for two years.
From 1951 to 1956 he studied film directing under Mikheil Chiaureli and Grigori Aleksandrov at VGIK in Moscow.
He shot to fame with his 1956 film Adam wants to be a man starring Donatas Banionis and his teacher, Juozas Miltinis.
His best known film, Nobody Wanted to Die, starring Lithuanian and Latvian actors, brought him international recognition.