Cinema of Lithuania (Lietuva)
Best films from Lietuva in no particular order.
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- DirectorArunas ZebriunasStarsVaiva MainelyteGediminas GirdvainisRegimantas AdomaitisA musical about the victory of love over the trickery of the Devil. A little devil Pinciukas is expelled from Hell and arrives to Baltaragis mill. In exchange for the mill owner's soul and the promise to have his daughter Jurga as a bride he helps the man with his work.
- DirectorArunas ZebriunasStarsLeonid ObolenskySaulius SipaitisDoloresa KazragyteLithuania, 1977. Memories of childhood, adolescence, and first love in a small provincial town, shown through complexity of human relations at this periodical film.
- StarsVytautas TomkusVaiva MainelyteAlgis MatulionisThis movie is a story of the legendary Lithuanian peasant- Tadas Blinda (1846-1877), a Lithuanian folk hero of the 19th century often compared to Robin Hood. He is shown as a leader of serfs battling and ridiculing the Polish landlords and the Russian Empire that governed Lithuania, Lithuania after the law about the end of serfdom. The movie is a an intense drama with a mix of cruelty and love, comic situations and jokes, heroism and treason. In the first part of the movie the landlord's daughter returns from St. Peterburg with lots of positive ideas in her head, willing to find a more human way to co-live with their peasants but her family isn't that much open-minded and liberal. Tadas gets a message that his father died while working in the landlord's fields but he can't attend the funeral because he's ordered to give a carriage ride to his "master's" family. The horses "get frightened" in the middle of the river and the carriage breaks. Tadas Blinda goes under the punishment. Fellow peasants are told to whip him under the threat of weapons. Reluctant at first, they still obey. The night comes, Tadas recovers from injuries, gathers a group of loyal peasants and starts his revenge...
- DirectorAlmantas GrikeviciusStarsRegimantas AdomaitisDonatas BanionisJuozas BudraitisThis film only evokes one day, the last day of a Lithuanian village of which all the inhabitants have been massacred, shot and burnt by Nazi executioners Saturday, June 3td. 1944. But the action unfolds in the past and in the present because man's memory does not forget and does not pardon genocide.
- DirectorVytautas ZalakeviciusStarsVitalijus PuodziukaitisAudrone BajerciuteStasis PetronaitisIn a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds, lives Adam, a naive young man with no job and a lot of dreams. His closest friend is the Captain, an old sea wolf with many tales to tell about Singapore, Hawaii and other equally exotic and sunny places. Inspired by his stories, Adam manages to get a job in an emigration bureau and starts saving for his ticket to leave abroad.
- DirectorVytautas ZalakeviciusStarsKazimieras VitkusRegimantas AdomaitisBruno O'Ya1947 year. Armed gangs are still hiding in Lithuanian forests. One after another, four village council chairmen were killed. Now old Lokis is dead. At the funeral, his four sons swear to destroy the Brownie gang. And Vaitkus, a former "forest brother", was forcibly put in place of Lokis.
- DirectorAlgirdas DausaAlmantas GrikeviciusStarsRegimantas AdomaitisJuozas BudraitisRegina PaliukaityteThe Second World War is ending. Widower Kasparas moves in with his brother Andrius, who lives on the other side of the bay where the German occupation has already ended. Andrius' wife Egne is still in love with Kasparas. Her relatives and a group of Lithuanian nationalists are planning on fleeing to Sweden. Egne persuades her husband that they should all go together, hoping to once again regain Kasparas' affection after crossing the sea. But Kasparas opts to return home and border guards detain Andrius. Nine long years pass before the brothers see each other again.
- DirectorArunas ZebriunasStarsInga MickyteLilija ZadeikyteArvidas SamukasLittle Inga considers herself pretty and is pampered by her mother and other children in her housing block, until a new boy with questionable habits arrives and calls her ugly in her face.
- DirectorRaimondas VabalasStarsJuozas BudraitisAudris ChadaraviciusPovilas GaidysThe daily life of a provincial Lithuanian town in the 1960s. From preparations for two early summer events, dramas emerge in the life of each of the characters, who are forced to deal with conundrums.
- DirectorMarijonas GiedrysStarsAntanas SurnaEugenija PleskyteAlgimantas MasiulisHistorical costume drama about the medieval wars of Old Prussians and Teutonic Crusaders. Hercus Monte (Latin: Henricus Montemin, German: Heinrich Monte, Lithuanian: Herkus Mantas) was the most famous leader of the Old Prussians during the Northern Crusades. This film is based on his biography.
- DirectorAlgimantas PuipaStarsJurate OnaityteAntanas SurnaVidas PetkeviciusStory set in a Baltic fishermen's settlement at the turn of the 20th century. The film's heroine keeps losing one husband after another, but there's always someone from the family to come and take care of her children and her house.
- DirectorGytis LuksasStarsGiedrius KielaEgle MikulionyteOksana BorbatThe story of the generation who lived through the entire Soviet period is told through the main character: his childhood spent in a village, true friendship, work in Soviet Klaipeda, thrilling eroticism, and a final, fatal love.
- DirectorRaimundas BanionisStarsAugustas SavialisGabija JaraminaiteJurate OnaityteRebellious Lithuanian teenagers in early 1970s are immensely influenced by Western culture, especially Radio Luxembourg, the Rolling Stones and Woodstock. After taking part in a hippie camp at the seaside, problems start to ensue.
- DirectorAlgirdas AraminasStarsAndrius KarkaRuta StaliliunaiteGediminas KarkaArunas, an 18 year old high-school graduate from the port town, is going through a crisis. He is stressed by the school routine and his friend Benas who had been earlier expelled from the school for trivial reasons, suggests he find a job.
- DirectorAlmantas GrikeviciusStarsJuozas BudraitisRegimantas AdomaitisEugenija PleskytePetras Minkus, a gifted but unsuccessful sculptor, is struggling to make ends meet by casual employment. Together with his childhood friend Povilas Baibokas he travels to the country, not just to make some money, but also hoping for a career breakthrough.
- DirectorAlgimantas PuipaStarsEgle JaselskyteJanina LapinskaiteAndrius PaulaviciusAt the end of the 19th century, proud but poor fisherman Jurgaitis gets imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. His beautiful daughter Elze is sent to live with rich German merchant Michael. There she falls for his son Endrik.
- DirectorKristina BuozyteStarsGabija JaraminaiteMarius JampolskisValda BickuteFollowing a traumatic experience, Gaile, a speech therapist, is incapable of feeling any emotion. However, while preparing a video presentation for a scientific conference, she sees herself on screen and is surprised to find suppressed sensations returning to her, primarily feelings of aggression. Gaile decides to try an experiment. With the help of a man and his video camera she stages various provoking situations and shows the result to those involved. Throughout the experience she is unable to perceive the value of normal emotions, or even the possibility that someone may have feelings for her.
- DirectorKristina BuozyteStarsMarius JampolskisJurga JutaiteRudolfas JansonasA neuron-transfer scientist experiments with the thoughts of a comatose young woman.
- DirectorKristina BuozyteBruno SamperStarsRaffiella ChapmanEddie MarsanRosy McEwenStruggling to survive with her father after the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, 13-year-old Vesper must use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the future.
- DirectorIgnas JonynasStarsVytautas KaniusonisOona MekasRimas BlockisParamedic Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related to his profession. Love, life and death will be at stake.
- DirectorEmilis VelyvisStarsIngeborga DapkunaiteVytautas KaniusonisAinis StorpirstisCommissioner Gintas must undertake the investigation of a series of heinous murders, a dangerous task that could expose the many dirty secrets of several prominent members of the social elite of a small Lithuanian town.
- DirectorAlante KavaiteStarsJulija SteponaityteAiste DirziuteJurate Sodyte17 years old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at a summer aeronautical show. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds the only person that truly encourages her to fly.
- DirectorMarija KavtaradzeStarsGreta GrineviciuteKestutis CicenasPijus GanusauskasDancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
- DirectorAndrius BlazeviciusStarsMarius RepsysIndre PatkauskaiteGelmine GlemzaiteLithuanian provincial town is facing the economic crisis in 2008. Vytas gets fired from the factory. Pushed by his wife, he immediately starts looking for a new job, but not really successfully. After having his haircut done, Vytas starts looking for a new love affair with a hairdresser Marija, but not really successfully, either. Finally, Vytas gets involved into a third search - he starts looking for a guy who posted video on youtube, claiming he saw Jesus Christ in their town. This is the only time he succeeds.
- DirectorGiedre BeinoriuteStarsIrmantas BacelisElzbieta DegutyteRolandas KazlasSoviet eighties. A little town in the periphery. After his parents' divorce, 11-year-old Rolanas and his dad move in next door to same-aged Emilija. Friendship is born between the kids, however, shyness or fear of opening up makes them communicate through the wall, sitting in their own balconies, or through a socket connecting their flats. Emilija's parents also appear to be on the verge of divorce. The children discover common topics, activities. Unfortunately, a nearly tragic accident prevents Emilija to go to the balcony. This encourages both children to set out for a "real" date.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsJonas MekasStan BrakhageRobert BreerDirector Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage.
- DirectorGiedrius TamoseviciusVytautas V. LandsbergisStarsDonatas ZelvysDainius GavenonisIndre PatkauskaiteA talented poet who was expelled from the Lithuanian Soviet Writers' Union for his anti-Soviet literature is recruited by the NKVD, to establish contact with the partisans. In return he is promised a return to the elite of Soviet writers.
- DirectorEdvins SnoreStarsJon StricklandVladimir BukovskyVladimir LeninThe Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.
- DirectorAudrius JuzenasStarsAnastasija MarcenkaiteIgor SavochkinKseniya RappoportThe story of a ten year old girl who escapes from a deportee train and goes on a 6000 km long journey back to her homeland.
- DirectorEmilija SkarnulyteA python slithers and curls over the abandoned control room of "Chernobyl's Big Sister", the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania, whose radioactive core is as an unleashed monster that will slither through time for a million years.
- DirectorDonatas UlvydasStarsRamunas CicenasInga JankauskaiteGiedrius SavickasAn upbeat holiday comedy with characters trying to figure out if love is really stronger than money. Can you imagine what would happen if we locked a woman in a small apartment with her husband and her ex? And what if the latter was also accused of stealing and hiding an insane amount of money? Is the "first cut" really the deepest, especially when it involves amounts numbering in millions?
- DirectorAndrius BlazeviciusStarsZygimante Elena JakstaiteMarius RepsysLaima AkstinaiteAfter her boyfriend has a psychotic episode and disappears, Maria is decided to let nothing stop her from helping him. Grabbing at every clue about his whereabouts she embarks on a fast-paced odyssey through the city.
- DirectorTadas VidmantasStarsAlena AlimovaJonas AntanelisRegina ArbaciauskaiteThree million euros is a lottery win that will test not only the efficiency of the STI, but also the strength of true Lithuanian love.
- DirectorAudrius JuzenasStarsAldona BendoriuteMonika BiciunaiteDaumantas CiunisRadio Free Europe, BBC, and Voice of America can only rarely get through the Iron Curtain and Soviet mufflers to Lithuania, a country torn by a war between the local resistance movement and the Soviet regime that is forced onto Lithuanian people by bayonets of the Russian army. Everybody who tries to resist the Soviet rule is either terrorized or executed or exiled to Siberia. He is one of the local high-school students who witness the local armed resistance to the Soviet regime and ultimately decide to join it by taking a gun into their hands. He collects documents and all possible kinds of evidence that prove daunting crimes of the Kremlin. He soon becomes a legend among his peers. To girls, he is John Wayne the Hollywood Icon. Guys see him as an insurmountable obstacle and an invincible rival in matters of love. He is destined to take part at the historical March to the West and inform the US Congress of the Baltic States' struggle for freedom, which subsequently leads to the Welles Declaration. The latter drives a wedge between two former allies, the USA and the USSR, and keeps the hope for independence alive in the three Baltic States under the Soviet occupation during the long years of the entire Cold War. "Owl Mountain" is a full lenght feature historical drama about the political and social issues of Lithuania in 1947-1952 m. which reflect most of Soviet occupied countries' life. It's about the journey of committed partisans and the message they carry out, about devotion and bloody fight, internecine relationships, love and hate, postwar generation, fear to die but not strong enough to defeat the aim for independence. That's the story of hope which is symbolized by the Voice of America. Story of reckless risk, survival, unity, and here the Jewish are stated as the best example of encouragement. Story of friendship, also with the different cultures but same destinies, such as hiding Germans. That's the story about sacrifice for freedom, for national, social and finally simple human happiness.
- DirectorVaidas LekaviciusStarsIlona BalsyteDarius AuzelisAurimas MeliesiusThe story of four free-spirited musicians who try the way to fame paved by producer Leo.
- DirectorEgle VertelyteStarsEgle MikulionyteVyto RuginisAndrius BialobzeskisClose to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town finds a surprising benefactor in a handsome American man who appears to be the answer to all her prayers.
- DirectorAlgimantas PuipaStarsRasa SamuolyteAleksas KazanaviciusNele SavicenkoVika, a nearly-suicidal, young woman visits a psychotherapist. She is in love with Paulius, a priest, and the diagnosis of mental illness of her husband, Go leaves no hope. The psychotherapist, in her attempts to resolve the amassed difficulties, seemingly begins to duplicate the life stages and behavioral patterns of her patient.
- DirectorIgnas MiskinisStarsDainius GavenonisJulia-Maria KöhlerJonas AntanelisA road movie, buddy picture and romance rolled into one, Low Lights pivots on a love triangle that evolves when two men and a woman take to ritual night driving. Transforming cold urban space into something charged with excitement, the drives provide the hope the trio so desperately needs.
- DirectorIgnas MiskinisStarsDainius GavenonisNeringa VarnelyteJuozas GaizauskasThe film tells a story about striking affair in the eccentric world of public relations, advertising, commercial and TV. It's a black comedy about hypertrophied image in today's society.
- DirectorJonas VaitkusStarsSaulius BalandisBrigita BublytePovilas StankusJonas Vaitkus's patriotic war film paints a poignant portrait of Lithuania's ten-year struggle against Soviet occupation and casts new light on folk hero Juozas Luksa-Daumantas, the legendary partisan who sought to bring Lithuania's plight to the West. Set in 1950, Utterly Alone powerfully depicts the bloody and brutal treatment meted out by Soviet Russia, aided by Lithuanian collaborators, as it systematically hunts down and kills resistance fighters. Reminiscent of the mood of Schindler's List, it pays tribute to the courage and fortitude of Daumantas and his fellow fighters as they battle valiantly against the might of Stalin's empire. Shot in atmospheric black-and-white, Utterly Alone has a documentary feel that only serves to bolster its starkness and the hopelessness of the partisans' cause. Utterly Alone is preceded by a short explanatory documentary.
- DirectorRugile BarzdziukaiteA wispy stretch of land from Russia to Lithuania is home to an unlikely tourist attraction: a dying forest of leafless trees overtaken by thousands of ancient black birds ruining the area with their acid-fortified feces.
- DirectorGytis LuksasStarsVaiva MainelyteValentinas MasalskisAlgimantas MasiulisA father and son try to win the favor of a young widow.
- StarsVladas BagdonasRimantas BagdzeviciusSigitas RackysA five part mini-series based on the novel by the same name.
- DirectorArturas PozdniakovasStarsAntisFojeAlgirdas KauspedasA music film created by bands Artele, Foje and Antis.
- DirectorDonatas UlvydasStarsInga JankauskaiteAusra GiedraityteKristina KazlauskaiteA marriage counsellor, who's own married life fell apart, sets out for new companionship consulted by her daughter and mother.
- DirectorAlmantas GrikeviciusAvtandil KvirikashviliVytautas ZalakeviciusStarsVladimir BoginVidas PetkeviciusVytautas PauksteIt is the summer of 1944 and two prisoners of war - a Lithuanian teacher and a Russian Navy officer - make an impulsive escape attempt and end up on a Baltic seaside resort for SS officers.
- DirectorAudrius JuzenasStarsHeino FerchSebastian HülkErika MarozsánIn 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beans stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jewish Chief of Police, Gens, uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.
- DirectorAlmantas GrikeviciusStarsBronius BabkauskasVytautas PauksteEugenija BajoryteCaesar, a former Nazi concentration camp prisoner, sifts through his traumatic experiences against the background of the new modern buildings of Vilnius, and become even stronger when he learns of the death of a friend and fellow traveler.