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A small town investigator's memories about a tragic love for her music teacher always come back. After the town is shaken by a teenage girl murder, where the main suspect is her ex-lover, investigator is taking the case.
Tells the tale of Lithuanian post-war history.
It seems that his life is finally moving in the right direction and he will soon be able to enjoy a happy life with his beloved Greta. But soon everything turns upside down. After returning from his honeymoon, Robert is caught up in a whirlwind of misunderstandings and unexpected situations, during which his beloved disappears. What can't you do for your sweetheart and your mother? This time he has an "almost" impossible mission.
In 1942, in Vilna, 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 beam 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 Jew 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.
The film presents the multifaceted personality of writer Jurgis Kunčinas, his creative workshop; his personal life is discussed openly, without avoiding painful biographical facts.
The storyline begins with Muza's childhood in the grip of the Soviet occupation regime. After winning the Liszt-Bartok International Piano Competition in Budapest, Muza starts receiving invitations to perform at Europe's foremost concert halls, but, alas, the Iron Curtain descends and she is no longer allowed to go abroad. Muza finally gets her chance in 1989 when the Soviet Union begins to collapse. Hard work eventually brings international recognition. The film depicts Muza's renewed battle with isolation as she is once again not fully able to perform due to the pandemic.
Rokas decides to take everything into his hands and starts new business project. Where love and money meets - there will be blood, that will paint coast red.
Austeja's parents get a job opportunity they do not want to say no to, and send their daughter to the country with the grandparents together with another child, Martynas. The children are bored at first, but they quickly discover that their stay in the country is anything but boring.
The author Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961-2007) was considered a pioneer of contemporary Baltic literature well beyond the borders of Lithuania. Her work deals intensively with the tension between religion, sexuality and emancipation. Film documents and interviews serve to reconstruct the life of this independent and willful woman - from her childhood to her artistic breakthrough as a companion of the Lithuanian rock and punk scene, but also depicting her spiritual side, which brought her all the way to India, where she turned to Buddhism. She is shown as fighting for the Dalai Lama and a "free Tibet", shown as a literary mind, but first and foremost she is shown as a woman who stood bravely in the face of inconvenience, pain and inner demons.
Ugne, a mother of two, who is abandoned by her husband Ignas after 15 years of living together. Ignas is about to marry the architect who designed their home, while Ugne is drowning in sadness and self-doubt.
Saulius is a journalist who reflects today’s society: everyone has heard about sustainability, everyone knows they should act more responsibly, yet just hearing these words often triggers a kind of rejection. To Saulius, these topics seem too complex, too boring, and too distant, but he decides to give it a try, because if no one even attempts to change, nothing will ever change. Driven by a sincere yet somewhat naïve desire to understand the world, Saulius embarks on a personal journey through the labyrinth of sustainability ideas, trying to answer the question: what is sustainability?
The film discusses a relevant issue of today: sustainability, a cleaner future, social equality, and organizational transparency.
Nomeda Saukienė's film portrait brings the eternal theme of human creativity and human vocation to life from a particular angle.
The film tells the short story of a love song born in Soviet-era Užupis in the 1970s, where, beneath a tightly regulated reality, the spirit of freedom flickers and minstrels in long maxi coats roam the streets.
