Vytautas Žalakevičius
1930 - 1996
Nobody Wanted to Die
Vytautas Žalakevičius
Donatas Banionis, Regimantas Adomaitis
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.
Nobody Wanted to Die
Рассказ неизвестного человека
Vytautas Žalakevičius
Yevgeniya Simonova, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, this drama centers around a desire for revenge and the tragedy of a star-crossed love. After a general ruins some men under him in punishment for a rebellion, a friend of the broken men vows revenge. The friend, a naval officer, takes a job as a valet in the general's son's house. While he plots his revenge, the son has an affair with a woman whom the valet begins to love. She is discarded after becoming pregnant, and the valet has his own troubles; he has contracted tuberculosis. Sick and unable to follow through on his plans for vengeance, he leaves for France with the pregnant woman hoping to declare his love and seek a cure for his illness.
Story of an Unknown Man
Adomas nori būti žmogumi
Vytautas Žalakevičius
Vitalijus Puodžiukaitis, Audrone Bajerciute
In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds, lives Adam, a naive young man with no job and a lot of dreams. His closest friend is the Captain, an old sea wolf with many tales to tell about Singapore, Hawaii and other equally exotic and sunny places. Inspired by his stories, Adam manages to get a job in an emigration bureau and starts saving for his ticket to leave abroad.
Adam Wants to Be a Man
Авария
Vytautas Žalakevičius
Regimantas Adomaitis, Rostislav Plyatt
У солидного служащего крупной фирмы в дороге ломается машина. Вызвана ремонтная бригада, но доедет до места она не скоро. Нужно как-то скоротать время. Неподалеку от шоссе есть дом, а в нем несколько стариков. Они предлагают сыграть в игру. Путешественник будет обвиняемым в убийстве, а хозяева исполнят роли судей, адвоката и даже палача...
The Accident
Это сладкое слово - свобода!
Vytautas Žalakevičius
Regimantas Adomaitis, Irina Miroshnichenko
In an unnamed Latin American country after a coup d'état, a military junta comes to power. The army deployed to the streets, the civilian population is exposed to hard terror. A wave of arrests follows, some former senators - liberals and communists - are sent to prison. Some patriots that have gone underground try to figure a plan for their release. They buy a small shop opposite the prison in the name of Francisco and Maria Vardes. From its basement they plan to build a 90-meter tunnel. Three years of enormous effort, deaths and nervous breakdowns are not spent in vain. The inmates run away, but while at large, the oldest of them, Senator Miguel Carrera suffers a heart failure. He dies in a safe house on the eve of a meeting with journalists.
That Sweet Word: Liberty!
