Reflections of Time: Baltic Poetic Documentary 2018 / Šimtamečių godos / Lithuania 1969
Ironically, The Dreams of the Centenarians was submitted as a feature for the centenary of Lenin’s birth. It was the simplest way to secure authorization to film old Lithuanian people (some of whom were actually a hundred years old). The filmmaker also satisfied the Soviet censors’ requirement to focus on working-class people.
Ironically, The Dreams of the Centenarians was submitted as a feature for the centenary of Lenin’s birth. It was the simplest way to secure authorization to film old Lithuanian people (some of whom were actually a hundred years old). The filmmaker also satisfied the Soviet censors’ requirement to focus on working-class people rather than the intelligentsia – the centenarians of the film are indeed ordinary country people. Still, ideologically-minded critics of the time objected to the film’s choice of “unsightly” subjects (a transgression against the USSR’s cult of youth and fitness) and “lack of optimism.”
Elena Jasiūnaitė
17 min / Black & white, DCP
Director Robertas Verba
/ Screenplay Albinas Šukelis, Robertas Verba
/ Dir. of Photography Robertas Verba, Algirdas Tarvydas
/ Music Algimantas Apanavičius
/ Editor Rimtautas Šilinis
/ Production Lithuanian Film Studio
/ Sales Lithuanian Film Centre
Robertas Verba (1932-1994). Selected filmography: The Old Man and the Land (Senis ir Žemė, 1965), Vincas Svirskis (1967), Čiūtyta rūta (1968), The Dreams of the Centenarians (Šimtamečių godos, 1969), To the Feast (Šventėn, 1970), Love Bloomed on Sunday (Meilė pražydo sekmadienį, 1976), Wings of Lituanica (Lituanikos sparnai, 1983)
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