Writing
Paramedic 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.
The film portrays Lukša's attempts, in trips to western Europe, to gain support for the armed anti-Soviet resistance (known as the Forest Brothers), whose fortunes in a guerrilla war against Soviet authorities were waning, largely due to widespread infiltration and harsh crackdowns by the NKVD.
Summer 1940, Lithuania is already occupied by the Soviets. In the interrogation underground, interrogator Pijus Karpavičius is nervously smoking, while in another room two arrested people meet - priest Antanas and Kazys, the leader of the still-organising anti-Soviet underground.
Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.
When her estranged father dies suddenly, artistic director Egle begins to hear voices who prophesy her father’s return. Fearing for her life, Egle solicits the help of an actress friend from the theatre, and through role-play and ritual they are drawn deeper and deeper into the torments of Egle’s past.
Director Jonas Vaitkus speaks boldly, openly and politely in front of the cameras. This is how he talks about his long career. It dares to expose itself, without missing the creator's suffering, nor the endless doubts, nor the indescribable joy of success. Fights with actors and Shakespeare remained side by side in the memory of the 70-year-old Maestro. This is his story. From the first premiere to the last performance.
The plot is based on the fate of the artist, reflected in art, which always accompanies people's lives, as well as dreams, pain or joy...
During the filmmaking, a director and actors attempt to create a portrait of a revolutionary.
For thirty years after the wedding, the war separated Jurgis and Morata. Now he is a famous surgeon, he works in the USA under the name of George Sticker and does not know that his daughter has grown up. But Morata finds him anyway. A belated honeymoon does not bring them happiness...
Ron has lost his job and watched his family fall apart. He spends his days at the club of his childhood friend, Adi, where he plays cards for money. It is springtime. He meets Dina, an old friend of Adi. They quickly become close, start playing as a team, and move in together. One evening, Ron loses all his money at the tables, gets drunk and is thrown out by Adi’s bodyguards. Dina takes advantage of the turmoil to steal from Adi. She convinces Ron to skip town. The two hide out in a fishing village. It is autumn. Ron and Dina discover that they know nothing about each another. They are strangers who can’t so much as look into each other’s eyes much less tell each other the truth.
A screen version of Vaitkus' own performance with the same name, based on Bronius Kutavicius's music and Sigitas Geda's verse.
