On the verge of retirement, Commissioner Gintas must undertake the investigation of a series of heinous murders, a dangerous task that could expose the many dirty secrets of several prominent members of the social elite of a small Lithuanian town.
Der Sommer von Sangailé Spielfilm Litauen Frankreich Niederlande 2015 (Sangailes vasara). Wilde Loopings, schwerelos über den Wolken. Die 17-jährige Sangailé hat Höhenangst, aber sie träumt vom Fliegen. In den Ferien mit ihren Eltern verbringt sie jede freie Minute auf dem Landeplatz, nur selbst mitzufliegen traut sie sich nicht. Bei einer Flugshow wird sie plötzlich von der hübschen Auste angesprochen, die dort als Hostess arbeitet. Auste ist unglaublich: selbstbewusst, wagemutig - und die Erste, die Sangailé und ihre Ängste wirklich versteht. Aus Freundinnen werden Geliebte. Und am Ende des Sommers wagt Sangailé Dinge, die ihr zuvor unmöglich schienen.
Für Michael sollte es eigentlich ein besonders schöner Tag werden, hatte er doch geplant, seiner Freundin einen Heiratsantrag zu machen. Doch als ihn seine drei Freunde John, Ben und Tim zu einem Auflug mitnehmen, nimmt das Unheil seinen Lauf. Denn plötzlich soll er den Dreien als Fluchtwagenfahrer bei einem Überfall auf ein Gangster-Casino zur Seite stehen. Es gelingt den Möchtegern-Räubern zwar das gewünschte Geld zu erbeuten, doch bei der Flucht nach Malaysia wird ihr Flug wegen eines Vulkanausbruchs nach Litauen umgeleitet. Ehe Michael weiß, was wirklich los ist, wacht er schließlich blutüberströmt in einem Hotelzimmer in Litauen auf. Von seinen Freunden fehlt jede Spur. Und so muss er sich nicht nur auf die Suche nach ihnen machen, sondern sich auch mit den beklauten Killern um den aufbrausenden "Golden Pole", billigem Bier, Prostituierten, korrupten Cops und der litauischen Mafia herumschlagen.
Der Neurowissenschaftler Lukas nimmt an einem Versuch teil, bei dem Informationen aus dem Gehirn der Koma-Patientin Aurora in sein eigenes übertragen werden. Das Experiment nimmt eine unerwartete Wendung: Lukas taucht immer tiefer in die Gedankenwelt der sinnlichen jungen Frau ein. In der surrealen Traumkulisse des Unterbewusstseins beginnen die beiden eine leidenschaftliche Beziehung. Besessen von dieser neuen Welt verheimlicht Lukas seine Entdeckung. Doch dann gerät das Experiment außer Kontrolle...
Paramedic Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related to his profession. Love, life and death will be at stake.
Als Tanzlehrerin Elena bei einem Kurs für taubstumme Jugendliche dem Gebärdendolmetscher Dovydas begegnet, gibt es sofort eine Anziehung zwischen den beiden, eine unmittelbare Energie. Sie treffen sich wieder, verbringen Zeit miteinander, teilen erste Erinnerungen. Schnell bekommt ihre Freundschaft immer romantischere Züge. Doch als Elena auch Dovydas’ körperliche Nähe sucht, schreckt der zurück und offenbart ihr, dass er asexuell ist. Beide sind einander so wichtig geworden, dass sie trotzdem einen Weg als Paar finden wollen – mit einer Art von Intimität, die sich für beide richtig anfühlt.
Als ein Erdbeben den Kühlkreislauf eines russischen Atomkraftwerks beschädigt, obliegt es dem aus Amerika herbeigeeilten Spezialisten Josh, die Reparaturarbeiten zu koordinieren. Vor Ort stößt Josh jedoch auf zwei Herausforderungen, die sich nicht mit dem Schraubenschlüssel beheben lassen: Der Betreiber will ans Netz um so ziemlich jeden Preis, und die zentrale technische Leiterin ist Joshs Ex-Frau und Mutter seiner Teenagerkinder. Da lässt ein weiteres Erdbeben die Situation im Atomkraftwerk und Umgebung eskalieren...
The atmosphere of a corridor between yesterday and tomorrow, where many doors open into the unknown. A series of faces, gestures and images both real and imagined time. A fragmentary narrative without dialogue depicting several people in Vilnius.
Eine ehrgeizige junge Psychologin erklärt sich bereit, zwei Patienten in eine psychiatrische Klinik am Meer zu begleiten. Während jede der drei Hauptfiguren ihre eigenen inneren Kämpfe ausficht, bringt ihre ungewöhnliche Reise sie in dieser eindringlichen, bittersüßen Geschichte einander näher.
Lithuania, 1977. Memories of childhood, adolescence, and first love in a small provincial town, shown through complexity of human relations at this periodical film.
Two young men leave a neglected but cozy native nook for a strange seaport town Kenigsberg. There they meet two girls the outsiders like themselves. Any attempt to find a normal human contact leads to misunderstanding. Or perhaps they are also lonely and unhappy. The realities, provoking a forced individualism melt in the atmosphere of the town, on which there lies a seal of historical and human cataclysms.
During the interwar period, a Lithuanian geography professor tries to convince the government to establish a backup state overseas, in order to save their country from ruin. However, the idea is mostly mocked and opposed. Still, there is hope in the secret support from the elderly prime minister, who has become disillusioned with politics.
A true story about an 11-year-old girl named Maria who makes her way back home to Lithuania from Siberia.
At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more romantic view of the world around them. This meditative documentary essay – from a Latvian writer and Lithuanian director whose composed touch has long dovetailed with the stylistically diverse works of the Baltic New Wave – pushes adroitly past the limits of the common his-toriographic investigation to create a portrait of less-clearly remembered filmmakers. The result is a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation. Also a cinematic poem about cinema poets.
Ein kleines Dorf in Litauen im 19. Jahrhundert: Die Bauern der Region werden geknechtet und leiden unter dem Einfluss polnischer Gutsbesitzer und dem russischen Reich. Der Bauernsohn Tadas Blinda lässt sich das nicht gefallen und verspottet die herrschende Klasse. Er wird zum Symbol der Revolution gegen die Leibeigenschaft. Er verliebt sich ausgerechnet in die Tochter eines einflussreichen Gutsbesitzers, dem das natürlich gar nicht schmeckt. Doch die Liebe zu dieser Frau ist ebenso groß wie die Liebe zu seinem Land...
How to steal a wife – an upbeat holiday comedy with characters trying to figure out if love is really stronger than money. Can you imagine what would happen if we locked a woman in a small apartment with her husband and her ex? And what if the latter was also accused of stealing and hiding an insane amount of money? Is the „first cut“ really the deepest, especially when it involves amounts numbering in millions?
1961. Father and daughter, separated during World War II, are trying to meet in Berlin. He comes to Berlin from Soviet Lithuania, she comes from the USA. Even if the Berlin Wall has not been built yet, the Cold War is coming close to its apogee. Political and geographical situation, that seemed to be favorable in the beginning, turns out to be deceptive. After his arrival, the father is looked after by KGB intelligence agents. They, using him as bait, are trying to lure the daughter to the east side. Affected by the citie's atmospehere that's pervated with distrust, she is afraid to cross the West Berlin boundary. Trying to save each other from the possible trap, father and daughter are ready to give up the idea of the so much desired meeting...
On a summer day, a man, his daughter and his companion arrive at their country house to spend the weekend. The daughter has just moved in with her father, whose attention she desires. The man is tired of his life, and does not know where to find the strength to carry on living. The woman, a violinist, is confused in her priorities - music, love or career. Despite the fact that the man and the woman love each other, their tense relationship is on the brink of collapse.
A girl wants to be the smartest person in the world. When all the things she's learned can no longer fit in just one head, her mother buys her a backup one.
A short documentary about a hospital ward for children with leukemia 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.
The film portrays Lukša's attempts, in trips to western Europe, to gain support for the armed anti-Soviet resistance (known as the Forest Brothers), whose fortunes in a guerrilla war against Soviet authorities were waning, largely due to widespread infiltration and harsh crackdowns by the NKVD.
The story about one man - an artist and an intellectual - who was imprisoned by two brutal regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets. 'The Professor' is a man who lives by his own personal version of the Ten Commandments. After miraculously surviving imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a bit of ironic fate, he writes a memoir of his life, which becomes the target of the Soviet censors. The so-called "freedom" of Communism becomes just as oppressive as the German concentration camp.
In the Cold War years of the 1970s, an American patrol boat meets a Soviet ship off the east coast of the United States for talks about fishing rights in the Atlantic. In the midst of this, while Russian commanders are aboard the U.S. Coast Guard vessel where the talks are being held, a Lithuanian sailor jumps across the ten feet of icy water separating the boats. Crash-landing on the deck of the American ship, he desperately begs for asylum. Though they try, the Americans ultimately fail to provide protection and the Soviets are allowed to capture him and brutally return him to their vessel. Thus begins a stranger-than-fiction story of imprisonment, discovery, fame, and freedom. Through rare archival footage and a dramatic first-person re-enactment of that fateful day by Simas Kudirka, the would-be defector himself, this tale of one of the biggest Cold War muddles takes us on a journey of uncanny twists of fate, and the emotional sacrifices of becoming a universal symbol of freedom.
A mentally ill young woman Valda convinces herself that a boy growing up in an orphanage is her child. Following the footsteps of a thousands Lithuanians, she immigrates to Ireland to earn money to save him. "Loss" portrays the beauty and tragedy of the human heart.
A rookie policeman is left alone in a private clinic to guard a comatose suspect of World War II crimes. His shift is long over, yet nobody comes to replace him. However, the youngster is determined not to leave his post until he gets permission from his authorities to do so. Lack of sleep, loneliness, hunger and the persistence to serve his duty turn the young man into a ticking time bomb at the very wrong time. He must decide how far he can go guarding this suspect who is hated to death by everyone.
Narcissus (from Greek Narkissos) shares the root nark-, with narcosis and narcotic. All these words have the same origin in the verb narkaō – to intoxicate through a strong smell. I was particularly interested to find out why a handsome and overall fortunate man says he never feels happy. He draws people in, but ends up hurting them, yet he is impossible to resist.
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