Robertas Verba
2021Šimtamečių godos
Robertas Verba
Though created to commemorate the centenary of Lenin, the documentary is far from celebrating Soviet ideology. In the film people who are one hundred years old talk about their lives. Their remembrances illuminate traditions and past of Lithuania.
The Dreams of the Centenarians
Laika tilti
Kristine Briede, Audrius Stonys
Herz Frank, Uldis Brauns
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.
Bridges of Time
Senis ir žemė
Robertas Verba
Robertas Verba’s first documentary film, described by film critic Živile Pipinyte as “the ‘ice-breaker’ which broke through the ice of Soviet ideology to form the peculiar stylistics of Lithuanian documentary film.” The hero of this film is the bright Lithuanian villager Anupras, whose archaic worldview becomes a symbol of the ethno-cultural Lithuanian identity that was often opposed to the identity constructed by Soviet propaganda.
The Old Man and the Land
Žemaitė
Robertas Verba
A film about the classics of Lithuanian literature. The director was interested not only in her creative path but also in her fate. He tried to make the film, made entirely of static material, breathe alive without appearing stagnant. In addition, instructional films are a great opportunity to set aside some of the dedicated film for documentaries, and the film limits for Verbs have always been too low.
Žemaitė
Vincas Svirskis
Algimantas Kundelis, Robertas Verba
A film about a great folk talent, Vincas Svirskis (1835-1916), a carpenter who traveled from village to village. His shelter, his family, his property was replaced by oak sculptures, crosses, his image left, people forgot his tomb, but his works remain - a monument to the master...
Vincas Svirskis
Seserys
Robertas Verba
As people approached the 100th anniversary of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, all people, though somewhat related, became important. The film's heroines are the artist's sisters Jadvyga and Viktorija Čiurlionytė. The verbs were usually concerned with revealing the man, he did not even emphasize the difference between a celebrity and an unknown person in the village. And in "Sisters", the director is interested in the communication between the two sisters of honorable age, their states, relationships, insignificant, seemingly replicas, rather than building a monument to the brother.
Sisters
