Chameleon Games

Chameleon Games 1987

1

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...

1987

Fact

Fact 1981

4.50

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.

1981

Adult Games

Adult Games 1968

1

Two episodes about the relationship between men and women in Lithuanians soviet era.

1968

Prodigal Son

Prodigal Son 1984

1

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.

1984

Little Sins

Little Sins 1980

1

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.

1980

Nakties paklydėliai

Nakties paklydėliai 1986

1

On December 30th, the wedding of a young couple from Vilnius - the imposing Alexander and the impulsive Inga.

1986

Benjaminas Kordušas

Benjaminas Kordušas 1986

1

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...

1986

The Turn

The Turn 1968

1

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.

1968

His Wife's Confession

His Wife's Confession 1983

1

A film about the psychological crisis of a woman in her 40s as she tries to create the illusion of love - looking for herself in love and love in herself.

1983

The Day of Retribution

The Day of Retribution 1977

1

Lithuania in the 19th century: While the first railway-road is built from Warsaw to Moscow throughout the country people are still facing slavery and oppression from the elite. A fight between the Robin-Hood-like gang leader Laurynas and the greedy landowner Laurnyas emerges.

1977

Exhibition

Exhibition 1988

1

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.

1988

My Baby Wife

My Baby Wife 1984

4.70

A sad story about love between Linas and Ruta - two young students in Vilnius.

1984

Mainai

Mainai 1979

7.00

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov.

1979

Awakening

Awakening 1991

1

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.

1991

June, the Beginning of Summer

June, the Beginning of Summer 1969

6.00

The daily life of a provincial Lithuanian town in the 1960s. From preparations for two early summer events, dramas emerge in the life of each of the characters, who are forced to deal with conundrums.

1969

Steps in the Night

Steps in the Night 1963

1

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)

1963

Merry Stories

Merry Stories 1973

1

A scrap metal collection drive is taking place at a school in Vilnius. This ambition, the same characters, the same place of action link all three novellas of "Merry Stories" - jokes, anecdotes.

1973

Sunrise Over the Neman

Sunrise Over the Neman 1953

1

The rise of a Lithuanian collective farm in the post-war years and the struggle against the remnants of the past in people's minds.

1953