The Old Man and the Land
HD
5.5
18 minRobertas 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.
Country:
SUGenre:
DocumentaryReleased:
1965-01-01Languages:
LithuanianCompanies:
Lithuanian Film Studio