Movies: Rimantas Šavelis

A feature film based on the short story "Fabijonas" by R. Šavelis....

Lithuanian countryside in the 1950s. People live with mixed memories of an independent Lithuania, no one believes in the myths of a future Soviet Lithuania, but everyone clings tenaciously, out of inner inertia, to the opportunities offered by even t...

A sad story about love between Linas and Ruta - two young students in Vilnius....

A young man's confusion in present times. The protagonist is looking for answers to questions that are relevant to many of his peers, coming of age in between a nostalgic socialist childhood and ideas pushed by a young democracy, relentlessly rushing...

Algimantas Puipa directed this 1997 drama about a painter wrestling with childhood memories of his father being exiled to Siberia....

This movie is a story of the legendary Lithuanian peasant- Tadas Blinda (1846-1877), a Lithuanian folk hero of the 19th century often compared to Robin Hood. He is shown as a leader of serfs battling and ridiculing the Polish landlords and the Russia...

A classic mystery based on "The Face in the Target" story by G.K. Chesterton....

Vito-Vilūnas' activities in Moscow and interwar Lithuania, the fight against the Nazis and his death in 1942....

Lithuania, 1968. After serving in the Soviet Army, Lukas comes back from Prague to his friends: Andrius, a state prosecutor's son, Julius, an unsuccessful artist, and Beatrice, who is attractive to all of her friends in her purity....

The peasant Juras Tarutis takes part in the struggle for independent Lithuania and in the election campaign for the Sejm, painfully experiencing the fascist coup in 1926. At first, he firmly believes in land reform and only after difficult trials, he...

At the end of the war, a French plane was shot down by the Germans near the Nemunas River, but the injured pilot Andrė parachuted into a Lithuanian village. Domas, a miller, hides him in his mill, while young Saulė, who was Domas' bride, nurses him. ...

Post Soviet life in Lithuania, the contemporary situation of a lonely man's soul....

A modest and unpretentious engineer, works as a sociologist at a factory. His life is ordinary: feuds with colleagues, lack of money, everyday problems. He would have lived like this if one day “business people” had not offered him to work for them. ...

A movie based on the stories by Antanas Vienuolis....