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Set in the post-war years when sovietization was still being resisted by partisans, often at the expense of a farming population intent on rebuilding.
It is the year 1947. The war is over but Estonian forests are still hiding armoured men. When the message comes that Western spies will arrive to support the local bushwhackers, security officer Rein Taim starts to lead the counter operation of the Communist Secret Police in order to catch the Western diversionists and the leader of the Estonian bushwhackers.
Three parts of the movie, "Summer", "Autumn”, and "Winter", set on the Baltic Sea at different times of the year, picture the growth and drama between children and adults.
Tragic pages in the history of the formation of the independent Lithuanian state in 1918-20.
An eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet, making fun of chauvinism and petty politicians.
A survivor of a Nazi concentration camp returns to his life in Lithuania and attempts to reunite with his former comrades years after the war ended. He struggles to bridge the gap between his horrific memories of the Holocaust and the mundane reality of his modern surroundings. While interacting with his daughter and old friends, he searches for a way to integrate his past trauma into a peaceful present.
"He is going to the sea with Her to spend their holidays and celebrate the wedding. An old woman is in the compartment with them. She tells them about her son, whom she is going to visit. The young people decide to celebrate the wedding right now, on the train. When they come to the sea, they see the old woman again not far from the beach. She says to Him: "Hello, son! It's me, your mother... "
Robertas Verba’s first documentary film, described by film critic Živile Pipinyte as “the ‘ice-breaker’ which broke through the ice of Soviet ideology to form the peculiar stylistics of Lithuanian documentary film.” The hero of this film is the bright Lithuanian villager Anupras, whose archaic worldview becomes a symbol of the ethno-cultural Lithuanian identity that was often opposed to the identity constructed by Soviet propaganda.
Will history be able to triumph, and misfortune and loss turn into joy? Everything is possible in the theater.
