Decadent No. 2419 2022
The portrait of poet, essayist, translator, dissident and professor of literature at Yale University - Tomas Venclova.
The portrait of poet, essayist, translator, dissident and professor of literature at Yale University - Tomas Venclova.
“Code of Tumas ” is an effort to show the well-known events and processes of history through the eyes of a direct person with a subjective and emotional look. Letters, publicism, all creations of Juozas Tumas Vaižgantas, also memories of his contemporaries make this reconstruction possible.
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.
A story about a Lithuanian ecological and ethnological youth movement "Atgaja". With its radical and creative protests against the Soviet regime, this movement made a significant contribution to regaining the country's independence.