Valentinas Masalskis
2021
Forest of the Gods
Algimantas Puipa
Valentinas Masalskis, Steven Berkoff
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.
Forest of the Gods
Vortex
Gytis Lukšas
Giedrius Kiela, Jevgenija Verenica
The film is based on the novel by Romualdas Granauskas, winner of the Lithuanian National Cultural and Arts Award, and is the chronicle of a young man’s shifting relationships as he adjusts rather dramatically to the unfamiliarity of freedom. The film will be shown in Lithuanian with English subtitles. Duburys won the Silver Crane Award in Lithuania. It has been selected as Lithuania’s entry for this year’s Oscar nomination in the foreign language film category. Duburys was entered in the Montreal World Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and has been invited to Cairo International Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Vortex
Triukšmadarys
Karolis Kaupinis
Valentinas Masalskis, Šarūnas Puidokas
A provincial school is waiting for an official delegation from the Ministry who is supposed to bring a new bell. But a bell is not what the school needs... Struggling to survive, the institution is currently lacking the two pupils required by governmental quota in order to stay open. Anticipating the arrival of the delegation, the principal tries his best to hide the real number of students to avoid the unavoidable closing down of the school.
The Noisemaker
Anima Animus
Jurgis Matulevičius
Žana Gončiar, Valentinas Masalskis
The film portrays the junction of two individuals: a lonely old man and a young woman, subconsciously joined in a single dream space. The different manifestations of the archetype Anima act as an ally between the unconscious 'self' and the conscious 'I'. Anima, both a Virgin Mary and a whore, expose the intimate conception of women, hidden inside the mind of the lonely man. While, simultaneously appearing in the women's subconsciousness as a mysterious and charming lover, a father figure, a professor or a saint, illuminating her perception of men. Anima, as many archetypes, possess a duality which allows it to have both a positive and negative influence.
Anima Animus
Nova Lituania
Karolis Kaupinis
Aleksas Kazanavičius, Vaidotas Martinaitis
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.
Nova Lituania
Борис Годунов
Vladimir Mirzoev
Maksim Sukhanov, Andrey Merzlikin
Modern adaptation of the eponymous historical tragedy by A.S. Pushkin. The picture opens from the scene of the murder in Uglich of a young heir to the Russian throne by unknown people. It takes several years. Boris Godunov is persuaded to take the throne remaining vacant, despite his doubts. During the press conference, the Duma clerk announces Godunov’s decision to ascend the kingdom. People are discussing this decision at the TV. Behind the tsar’s back there is a secret undercover fight of several boyar groups for domination under the new government. Godunov, who ascended the throne, obsessively pursues a vision of the boy he killed. Meanwhile, the monk Grigory Otrepyev is hiding in the Miracle Monastery. After talking with Pimen, he learns the secret of the murder, flees from the monastery and decides to try to come to power. Having secured foreign help and gathered an army, Grigory goes to Moscow.
Boris Godunov
Цена головы
Nikolai Ilyinsky
Vladimir Samoylov, Valentinas Masalskis
Экранизация одноименного романа Жоржа Сименона. Комиссар Мегрэ расследует зверское убийство богатой американки и ее горничной, зарезанных на вилле. Задержан подозрительный мужчина. Мегрэ решается на эксперимент...
Цена головы
Осень, Чертаново...
Igor Talankin
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Irina Skobtseva
По мотивам повести «Ум лисицы» и других произведений Георгия Семенова. 1984 год. Писатель Федор страстно влюблен в молодую красивую женщину Марию, отвечающую ему взаимностью. Между тем, она замужем за физиком, которого, как она сама говорит, тоже любит и не может оставить. Сложный конфликт взаимоотношений главных героев заканчивается трагически.
Osen, Chertanovo...
Vikno navproti
Eduard Dmitriev
Valentinas Masalskis, Albert Filozov
Detective Hall Jefferies, who suffered an injury, is forced to sit in a chair all day and look out the window out of boredom. After a while, Jeffries studied well all the neighbors in the house opposite, their behavior and habits. Changes in the life of a man living with his sick wife led him to think about murder. The woman disappeared, but no one saw her leave the house…
Rear Window
