
Birthday:
07-13-1949
(75 years)
Birthplace:
Žasliai, Lithuania
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Parade
Act like Kunigas Davidavičius
event2023 star_border 7
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Miglė, who married when she was very young, has for 26 years been divorced from her ex-husband who one day calls her and asks for a favour. He has found that it would be a good time to get married again after the death of his mother. But there is a small problem: their divorce is valid only in the eyes of the law, because a Catholic marriage cannot be divorced. It can, however, be annulled. All that needs to be done is to complete an application and give the “Catholic court” a good reason. But she does not know in what kind of absurd situations she is about to find herself in.
Family Unit
Act like Kestutis
event2019 star_border 6
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Migle’s grandfather has been living in an apartment that is too big for him. Two sibling families decided to move him out. In order to please Migle, Eimantas comes to grandfather’s home to help family move all the furniture. But not everyone in the family is happy about his presence.
The Poet
Act like School head-master
event2022 star_border 8
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A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children wilingly recite his verses from 'To My Soviet Motherland', written under pressure to prase Uncle Lenin. Eventually, an unforgotten friend shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon's underground bunker.
Wolf Children
event2013 star_border 6.8
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The story of a boy who, driven by the search for his lost brother in the turmoil of WWII, joins a group of children in order to survive the chaos of post-war anarchy in the haunted forests of Lithuania.
Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda
Act like Gruinius
event2011 star_border 6.5
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A romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army
Weekend in Hell
Act like Teacher
event1987 star_border 5
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Two POWs - Russian and Lithuanian - are trying to escape a German Camp during WWII.
The Eternal Light
event1989
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Lithuanian countryside in the 1950s. People live with mixed memories of an independent Lithuania, no one believes in the myths of a future Soviet Lithuania, but everyone clings tenaciously, out of inner inertia, to the opportunities offered by even the smallest personal farm. This is a film that subtly tells the story of love and the beginnings of a peaceful life in the countryside: the surveyor is tormented by Pranė, who has fallen in love with him unrequitedly, Amilia, who has fallen in love with Zigmas, but is married to the surveyor, Anicetas, the village philosopher, Bernasius, knows it all: if there is an eternal darkness, there is also an eternal light...
Garden of Eden
event2015 star_border 6
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Lithuania in the near future. The land is full of rich immigrants. Rich Lithuanians that were scattered throughout the world return to Lithuania to spend their golden years in luxurious nursing homes; and the laws that govern life and death provide a feeling of security... The residents of the Garden of Eden look upon this "global theatre of life" with tearful smiles and great wisdom.
Ticket to the Taj Mahal
Act like Anicetas
event1991 star_border 2
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A feature film based on the short story "Fabijonas" by R. Šavelis.
Unseeded Rye Blossom
Act like Aleksius
event1979
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A man who abandoned his wife and son 20 years ago is forced to deal with the consequences.
Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania
Act like Jokūbas
event2023
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A series of vignettes situated in an apartment in Vilnius conceive of the complexities of desire and love as seen through the fleeting experiences of five Airbnb guests, each in differing states of romantic entanglement and crisis.
Journey to Paradise
Act like Francas
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The rich widow Marta Anker, owner of a renowned trading company, loves the poor fisherman Ansą Balčiai. The locals keep the ongoings under close watch.
Lunar Lithuania
Act like Spielskis
event1997 star_border 8
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Lunar Lithuania is a 1998 drama film written by Saulius Saltenis and directed by Gytis Luksas.
Nazis and Blondes
Act like Self
event2008 star_border 6
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Veteran actors from the 3 Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - gather at a castle in Latvia to receive awards for their roles as Nazi villains in propagandist Soviet war films. They reminisce about the films that made them famous throughout the USSR, but also stigmatized the Baltic countries as Nazi sympathizers in the eyes of many Russians - a misconception that is nowadays exploited by the Russian media, desperate to label the Baltic countries as a fascist haven.
A Wolf Teeth Necklace
Act like Tadas
event1997 star_border 5.6
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Algimantas Puipa directed this 1997 drama about a painter wrestling with childhood memories of his father being exiled to Siberia.
Pirosmani, Pirosmani...
Act like sargas
event1987
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About the last days of the great Niko Pirosmanishvili, who died alone. And his only interlocutors were the heroes of the paintings...
Electronic Granny
Act like Agatha's father
event1985
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Agata is badly ill and nobody knows how to cure her. No doctor can help. Friends of Agata learn, that she is ill, because all children have Grannies but Agata does not. They go to the shop "Electronic Granny" and beg the dealer to sell them one Electronic Granny. The dealer warns them, that her electronic circuits are very sensitive - and this Granny will only work if loved. Agata get healthy and plays with her new Granny and other friends. Granny can invite new games and even fly with all children to the Moon. But later due to the jealousy and bad heabits children forget that they must love Granny, they begin to treat her just as a robot that "must do what they ask". As a result Granny dies. To resurect her Agata and friends must get off their ambitions, rudeness, jealousy and again become loving, cheerful and kind.
Bergen
event2009
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Two men meet in a run-down Vilnius restaurant - an old man and a young thug named Vytas. After a couple of drinks, the old man suggests that Vytas, who is emigrating to Bergen the following day, can save the restaurant's singer from hardship if he were to take her away with him.
Earth the Foster-Mother
Act like kaimietis
event1977
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The peasant Juras Tarutis takes part in the struggle for independent Lithuania and in the election campaign for the Sejm, painfully experiencing the fascist coup in 1926. At first, he firmly believes in land reform and only after difficult trials, he become disillusioned with the reform and with the bourgeois system itself.
Dance of the Little Swans
Act like Kęstas
event1984
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A once-separated couple decides to celebrate their wedding anniversary and gets into troubles.
Hedda Gabler
Act like Jorgenas Tesmanas
event1988
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Life of a femme fatale; a picture of a strong-willed woman is created, capable of becoming the queen of fate, killed by the urban environment and the fear of living her own life...
Emilia
Act like Aktorius
event2017 star_border 7.4
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Soviet Lithuania in 1972. A young theatre actress is trying to make a difference and tell the forbidden story of repression in a play.
Defiance
Act like Avram Rubinski
event2008 star_border 6.8
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Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
A Woman and Her Four Men
Act like Elder son
event1983 star_border 5.5
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An epic tale set at the turn of the 20th century in a struggling fishing community, following the life of a woman widowed at the beginning of the film.
Kings' Shift
Act like Vytautas Daubaras
event2016 star_border 6.5
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A rookie policeman is left alone in a private clinic to guard a comatose suspect of World War II crimes. His shift is long over, yet nobody comes to replace him. However, the youngster is determined not to leave his post until he gets permission from his authorities to do so. Lack of sleep, loneliness, hunger and the persistence to serve his duty turn the young man into a ticking time bomb at the very wrong time. He must decide how far he can go guarding this suspect who is hated to death by everyone.
Lost Valentine
event2014 star_border 6.5
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This adventurous romantic comedy with a light hint of eroticism tells the story of Valentine’s night miracles – it is a night, when everyone should stop lying to themselves – and to others.
Purpurinis rūkas
Act like Daugela
event2019 star_border 4.7
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'Purple Smoke' tells the complex story of Lithuanian Jew Jozef, partisan commander Vlad and their two beloved Janes.
The Devil's Seed
Act like Fiodoras
event1979
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In the Lithuanian village of Lietuvos, a farmer brings his sheltered nephew, Joni, to the rich Bani. By biting the prospective host's hand, the teenager gains the nickname of "the devil's seed."
Žaltvykslės
Act like būgnininkas
event1980
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A little boy and a story teller look into the microscope to find out that the world in a drop of a water looks like a real world, so they dive into it and meet different personalities, miracles and events.
Perilous
Act like Vladimir
event2000 star_border 5
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A lawyer is on a business trip to St. Petersburg. When a beautiful woman on the run runs into him and asks for help, he is thrown into a dangerous world of jewel thieves and gangsters.
Letters To Sofija
Act like Konstantinas Čiurlionis
event2013 star_border 6.3
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Based on a true story, this is the love affair between a Lithuanian genius and the woman and the country he adored. Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis was born into a Lithuanian peasant family in 1875. Despite his lowly origins he soon revealed himself to be a child prodigy able to both paint and compose music of startling and often frightening intensity. Soon after he was struck down by a mysterious mental illness, which would plague him for the rest of his life. During his short lifetime, Ciurlionis produced over 300 paintings and 300 musical compositions. Supporting him throughout his short and painful life was his beloved wife, Sofija Kymantaite, a journalist and political activist.
Russian Dolls: Sex Trade
Act like Daria's Father (2 ep.)
event2005 star_border 7.4
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Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.
Rimti Reikalai
Act like Jonas (32 ep.)
event2018
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An abundance of stories, an energetic storytelling style and an ironic approach to situations - this is the new LNK series "Rimti Reikalai". Released after five years in prison, the criminal Hard finds himself at the epicenter of bloody events. The criminal gang to which he belonged breaks up, and a fierce battle begins for the chair of the mafia boss.
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