
Rimantas Savelis
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Clyde Griffiths dreams of climbing the corporate ladder and making his way into the highest circles of society. In order to fulfill his most cherished dream, Clyde is ready for absolutely anything, he will not even stop before committing a terrible and ridiculous crime...
An American Tragedy

Lithuania, 1968. After serving in the Soviet Army, Lukas comes back from Prague to his friends: Andrius, a state prosecutor's son, Julius, an unsuccessful artist, and Beatrice, who is attractive to all of her friends in her purity.
Jazz

The 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.
Tadas Blinda

A classic mystery based on "The Face in the Target" story by G.K. Chesterton.
The Face in the Target

At the end of the war, a French plane was shot down by the Germans near the Nemunas River, but the injured pilot Andrė parachuted into a Lithuanian village. Domas, a miller, hides him in his mill, while young Saulė, who was Domas' bride, nurses him. They fall in love, but shortly after, Andrė's squadron mates Arrive. Five years after the end of the war, Saulė is still waiting for the Frenchman, who is said to have died near Nemunas.
Markizas ir piemenaitė

A movie based on the stories by Antanas Vienuolis.
A Horse Thief's Daughter

A feature film based on the short story "Fabijonas" by R. Šavelis.
Ticket to the Taj Mahal

The film is based on Gilbert Keith Chesterton's short stories. Father Brown investigates the murder of a bodyguard of industrial magnate Izaokas Hukas.
The Face in the Target

A young man's confusion in present times. The protagonist is looking for answers to questions that are relevant to many of his peers, coming of age in between a nostalgic socialist childhood and ideas pushed by a young democracy, relentlessly rushing forward.
Non-Present Time

Algimantas Puipa directed this 1997 drama about a painter wrestling with childhood memories of his father being exiled to Siberia.
A Wolf Teeth Necklace

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.
Earth the Foster-Mother

Vito-Vilūnas' activities in Moscow and interwar Lithuania, the fight against the Nazis and his death in 1942.
Call It by Its Real Name

A modest and unpretentious engineer, works as a sociologist at a factory. His life is ordinary: feuds with colleagues, lack of money, everyday problems. He would have lived like this if one day “business people” had not offered him to work for them. But he finds himself at a crossroads: work with the mafia and live in abundance, or continue to exist modestly, but not change his principles...
Fog

A sad story about love between Linas and Ruta - two young students in Vilnius.
My Little Wife

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...
The Eternal Light

Post Soviet life in Lithuania, the contemporary situation of a lonely man's soul.