After living in the city for ten years, Vilius returns to the farmstead, where his older brother Petras, the chief livestock specialist of the collective farm, still lives. An internal conflict with his brother, an overly energetic person, will not prevent Vilius from finding his place in life here.
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.
The rich widow Marta Anker, owner of a renowned trading company, loves the poor fisherman Ansą Balčiai. The locals keep the ongoings under close watch.
Based on the novel of the same name by Raimondas Kašauskas, about a strange man who is restless, who wants to live differently from everyone else, to play life.
A feature film based on the short story "Fabijonas" by R. Šavelis.
Paris, 1955. Fraudster Georges de Valera, hiding from the police, with the help of a correspondent for the reactionary newspaper Sibilo, poses as Minister Dubov, who allegedly escaped from the Soviet Union. Sibilo's daughter explains to Georges the purpose of the planned action: to slander progressive journalists with the help of the false Dubov. De Valera, not wanting to become a participant in the provocation, goes into hiding. But instead they find another candidate for the role of Dubov...
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.
Lithuanian schoolchildren were driving home, returning from an excursion. Not far from Minsk, the bus came under bombing. The war caught the boys far from home, by surprise. A turn in their destinies, knowledge of the harshest sides of existence... And the heroes are only thirteen years old.
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.
Alyoshin, a Soviet journalist working in Argentina, witnessed the kidnapping of photo correspondent.
Four different stories about young kids' destinies in different time periods in Lithuania.
The family breaks up. The boy Jonukas feels very lonely. He wants to find his mother himself. The search is long and difficult.
The film tells about the everyday life of the Vilnius utility company. The main conflict in the film occurs between director Valaitis and chief engineer Butkus, who opposes the director’s working methods.
Late 19th century England. Relatives and guests gather at the country house of retired Colonel Houp. From London, where she lives as a "live-in" (her husband has left the country for a long time), comes the still young Molly Gwyn, followed by Morris Lever, the object of a flirtation that risks turning into an affair.
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.
Vabalas’s thesis film “Footsteps in the Night” (1962) portrays Kaunas in 1943, occupied by the German army. Alex, who recently returned to the city, tries to join the anti-Nazi resistance, but is captured and imprisoned. He soon starts planning his escape. Even though the screenplay was forced on him by his superiors, Vabalas managed to avoid creating an overly-heroic film. Instead, his work is filled with tension and complex characters. The film involved one of the most memorable scenes in Lithuanian cinema, portraying prisoners dancing by the fire. (Kino Pavasaris)
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...
A drama based on the novel "Kvietimas". The director of the local history museum, Adamonis, has everything that, in his opinion, an employee of this rank should have: a seemingly prosperous family, employees who seem to respect him, and even a mistress. In addition, he is patronized by the first secretary of the district party committee. Hoping for a future career in Vilnius, Adamonis decided to give his benefactor one of the museum’s valuable exhibits. But new people came to the leadership of the district, demanding people who did not tolerate showing off or flattery, and Adamonis’s ambitious dreams were never destined to come true.
Story about teenage love in sanatorium. Leta, a girl with a heart disease, and Saulius, a new boy in sanatorium, fall in love with each other, but doctors try to forbid young people feelings.
Investigative documentary tells a story of a Soviet Army soldier Artūras Sakalauskas. On the way home in a train after the Army training, he was humiliated and abused by his fellow comrades and shot all eight of them. Beržinis interviewed different people touched by this tragical event.
