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Vytautas Žalakevičius

Vytautas Žalakevičius

Writing

Known For

Tale of the Moon Outstanding
9.0

The legendary commander of the Civil War, the winner of Wrangel arrives in the capital at the call of Stalin. In the capital, he is perplexed to learn that the Politburo at a special meeting decided to force him to operate on a long-standing ulcer. The attending physician is convinced that the operation is not needed, but, obeying party discipline, the old Bolshevik lies on the operating table.

Tale of the Moon Outstanding

1990
The Centaurs
4.5

A political conspiracy is brewing in an unnamed Latin American country. Everything is in play: blackmail, bribery, political assassinations, newspaper slander. The operation, code-named "Centaur", is conceived in Washington.

The Centaurs

1979
Nobody Wanted to Die
5.5

The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between the Soviets and the "brothers in the woods", who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets after the end of the Second World War.

Nobody Wanted to Die

1966
The Devil's Seed
10.0

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."

The Devil's Seed

1979
Story of an Unknown Man
4.3

Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, this drama centers around a desire for revenge and the tragedy of a star-crossed love. After a general ruins some men under him in punishment for a rebellion, a friend of the broken men vows revenge. The friend, a naval officer, takes a job as a valet in the general's son's house. While he plots his revenge, the son has an affair with a woman whom the valet begins to love. She is discarded after becoming pregnant, and the valet has his own troubles; he has contracted tuberculosis. Sick and unable to follow through on his plans for vengeance, he leaves for France with the pregnant woman hoping to declare his love and seek a cure for his illness.

Story of an Unknown Man

1980
Fact
5.7

Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a few survivors, the testimony of villagers, and some of the Germans responsible for the killing, the film gradually reconstructs the event and its context.

Fact

1981
The Chronicle of One Day
5.8

An academic heads to Leningrad to attend the funeral of an old friend.

The Chronicle of One Day

1963
Notes in Lifestyle Margins
N/A

The film tells about the famous Lithuanian director Vytautas Žalakevičius. The film contains many excerpts from the director's films and conversations with him. Here he talks about life, creativity and about himself. Vytautas Žalakevičius is remembered by his friends and associates.

Notes in Lifestyle Margins

2002
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Авария

1975
The Accident
6.5

A reputable employee of a large firm has his car break down on the road. A repair team has been called in, but it won't get there soon. It is necessary to pass the time somehow. Not far from the highway there is a house, and in it there are several old men. They suggest we play a game. The traveler will be accused of murder, and the owners will play the roles of judge, lawyer and even executioner.

The Accident

1975
I'm Sorry
6.3

Pranas, now a celebrity singer, returns to his homeland from a big city. He is greeted at the airport and driven to his native village by a childhood friend Jonas, who works there as a doctor.

I'm Sorry

1982
The Monarch Butterfly
N/A

A young biophysicist, dreaming of spiritual and physical immortality, makes an experiment on himself: by radioactive irradiation he violates the genetic code, as a result of which he passes into another biological substance and becomes immeasurably more perfect than his fellows on Earth.

The Monarch Butterfly

1980
Marius
9.0

Lithuania, the first half of the 18th century. A young hero—illegitimate, rejected by his family, and forced to carve his own path in life—faces thrilling adventures ahead...

Marius

1990
That Sweet Word: Liberty!
4.9

In an unnamed Latin American country after a coup d'état, a military junta comes to power. The army deployed to the streets, the civilian population is exposed to hard terror. A wave of arrests follows, some former senators - liberals and communists - are sent to prison. Some patriots that have gone underground try to figure a plan for their release. They buy a small shop opposite the prison in the name of Francisco and Maria Vardes. From its basement they plan to build a 90-meter tunnel. Three years of enormous effort, deaths and nervous breakdowns are not spent in vain.

That Sweet Word: Liberty!

1972
Adam Wants to Be a Man
5.9

In 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.

Adam Wants to Be a Man

1960
Saduto Tuto
7.7

Story about artist caught up in summer love triangle.

Saduto Tuto

1974
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5.2

At 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.

Elze's Life

2000
Weekend in Hell
5.1

Two POWs - Russian and Lithuanian - are trying to escape a German Camp during WWII.

Weekend in Hell

1987
All Truth About Columbus
N/A

The film is about the Colombian revolution, about the revolutionaries Pablo and Pedro, the bearers of freedom and the victims of this freedom, about the philosophy of the struggle for freedom.

All Truth About Columbus

1970
Until It's Too Late...
N/A

Naive story about young bride who tries to decide which one of her admires: a broom or a fisherman, she should be with until it’s not too late.

Until It's Too Late...

1957