In his dreams little Tomas escapes from his every day live to experience a lot of thrilling and exciting adventures.Read More »
Lithuanian
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Arunas Zebriunas – Polunochnyk AKA Naktibalada AKA Nightbird (1973)
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Saulius Berzinis – Veliava is plytu AKA The Brick Flag (1988)
1981-1990ArthouseDocumentarySaulius BerzinisUSSRIt’s a documentary about Soviet army private Arturas Sakalauskas who, having grown tired of constant humiliation, shot his fellow soldiers in a train carriage in February 1987. Even though the film traces the tragic event, the psychological portrait of the defendant is placed at the centre. By looking intently inside the young man, the director poses a question, what had actually happened that such a fatal, life-changing decision was made.Read More »
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Raimundas Banionis – Vaikai is Amerikos viesbucio AKA Children From The Hotel America (1990) HD
Drama1981-1990CultLithuaniaRaimundas BanionisThe film revolves around the lives of teenagers in Soviet Lithuania. The protagonists of the film are fans of rock’n’roll music which is banned in the USSR and are interested in the hippie movement, secretly listening to the Luxembourg radio. They all live in a house which was formerly a hotel, called “America”. Events of Kaunas’ spring affect them as they are involved. After their attempt to send a letter to the Luxembourg radio, teenagers would become suspects to the KGB.Read More »
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Arunas Zebriunas – Grazuole AKA The Beautiful Girl (1969)
1961-1970Arünas ZebriünasDramaLithuaniaQuote:
Unusual both because, as Näripea states, it “lacks the ideological markers of Soviet life” and because it features an unmarried mother as one of its main characters, Arūnas Žebriūnas’s Lithuanian The Beauty (Gražuolé) focuses on free-spirited nine-year-old Inga (Inga Mickyte), whose self-confidence is shattered when a new neighbour declares her ugly, opening up her early rite of passage into the adult world of disillusionment that her single mother (Lilija Zadeikyte) already fully occupies.Read More » -
Robert Mullan – We Will Sing aka Mes Dainuosime (2015)
2011-2020DramaLithuaniaPoliticsRobert MullanA group of protesters, from all around Lithuania, gather at the Television Tower to protect it from approaching Soviet tanks and paratroopers.Read More »
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Henrikas Sablevicius – Musu vasara (1963)
1961-1970DramaHenrikas SableviciusShort FilmUSSRSynopsis:
A children’s short film about the summer adventures of a schoolboy and his dog. The protagonist of the film seeks to get on TV to demonstrate the “extraordinary talent” of his four-legged friend … The game story is illustrated with the documentary shots of the summer holiday of the Lithuanian pioneers of the early 60’s. The information: “Our summer” is the first Lithuanian children’s television film, as well as the first work of the Lithuanian SSR television, specially shot for the “Intervision” system – an international television network, which included some socialist countries and republics of the USSR, and Finland. Read More » -
Audrius Stonys – Viena AKA Alone (2001)
2001-2010Audrius StonysDocumentaryLithuaniaShort FilmAbout the movie
Film is about immeasurable loneliness of child, only loneliness and nothing more. Story was shoot without any manipulation means. Trip to prison, meeting, way home. That’s all. Movie leading to ethical problem, how deep into person’s pain we can interfere, documentary can interfere. Read More » -
Audrius Stonys – The Bell (2007)
2001-2010ArthouseAudrius StonysDocumentaryLithuaniaAccording to the recorded narrations, 300 years ago, during the Lithuanian-Swedish war, the bell of Plateliai church belfry was taken down and was being carried over the ice of the frozen lake when the ice broke near the Castle island and the bell sank.Read More »
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Sharunas Bartas – Indigène d’Eurasie (2010)
2001-2010CrimeDramaLithuaniaSharunas BartasGena is under no illusions about his situation. In the prologue of the film, he briefly sketches out his life in a monotone voiceover: growing up without parents, receiving an “education” from his criminal uncle, initial protection money rackets in the wake of privatizations in the crumbling Soviet Union, later international drug dealing. His enemies are numerous but not easy to recognize; “life is short, the greater part of it already over”. Although there is only a small chance that Gena will be able to trade in his nomadic existence between Asia and Europe for a “normal life”, he takes the plunge anyway. A frantic chase across Europe thus ensues. Heading west, presumably towards the sun.Read More »