The EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA AND THE CANADIAN FILM INSTITUTE IS PLEASED TO PRESENT THE LITHUANIAN RETRO FILM "FEELINGS"
„Feelings“
1968 , 90 min., black and white, Lithuanian film studios
Screenplay: Vytautas Žalakevičius.
Director: Almantas Grikevičius and Algirdas Dausa
Cinematographer: Jonas Tomaševičius.
Cast: Regimantas Adomaitis, Juozas Budraitis, Regina Paliukaitytė, Eugenija Bajorytė, Laimonas Noreika, Algimantas Masiulis, Vytautas Paukštė, Gediminas Girdvainis and others.
This movie was banned in the Soviet Union. 1975 awarded by Special Jury Prize at the International Film Festival in San Remo. 1995 “Feelings” was recognized as the best Lithuanian movie of all times.
SYNOPSIS: The film, set at the end of the Second World War, follows the fate of two brothers who live either side of a bay. One brother, Kasparas, lives in German-occupied Lithuania, while the Germans have already withdrawn from the other bank where his brother, Andrius, lives. Kasparas, left with two children after the death of their mother, is facing his tradegy and decides to move in with his brother and escape German control. Andrius and his wife Agne are involved with Lithuanian nationalists who have been resisting the German occupation. They are planning on fleeing Lithuania for Sweden. Feelings depicts a chaotic period through the relationship of the two brothers one dedicated to the family and conscience, the other dedicated to a political ideal.
The “Feelings“ tackles a basic theme of Lithuanian films: the struggle to survive. Especially, the horror of Andrius's imprisonment in Siberia, is easily applicable to all the Baltic states and other central European countries. These separated brothers can be seen as a representation of a country, which was torn into two by a history. The drama is most powerful in detailing the struggle between culture and politics. Lithuania has a history of occupation and the struggle to survive which is as much personal as it is cultural.
Venue: 28 February 2008, 7 p.m.
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington St., Ottawa
Admission: 9 $
