Children of Hotel America 1991
Kaunas, Lithuania, 1972... Young people are sitting in the Hotel "America" basement and listen to Western Radio.
Kaunas, Lithuania, 1972... Young people are sitting in the Hotel "America" basement and listen to Western Radio.
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.
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.
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.
Four different stories about young kids' destinies in different time periods in Lithuania.
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.
A feature film based on the short story "Fabijonas" by R. Šavelis.
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.
Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.
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.
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)
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...
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.
An conductor Jonas Alexa and the Lithuanian Philharmonic Orchestra rehearse Juzeliunas' symphony "The Human Lyre".
A sad story about love between Linas and Ruta - two young students in Vilnius.
The film tells about the life of the Lithuanian landed nobility in the period between the two wars, about the desire to live their old life. But new times dictate new conditions, new values emerge, and loyalty to old ideals is doomed...
The 19th century in the serf village of Lithuania. Young Severija and violinist Mykoliukas like each other, but their love is challenged by Geišė, a much older, though still lively and imperious, tycoon.
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...
A father and son compete for the affections of a young widow.