Reflections of Time: Baltic Poetic Documentary 2018 / Kelionė ūkų lankomis / Lithuania 1973
Henrikas Šablevičius made this film as a farewell to the siaurukas, a slow, narrow-gauge train recalling the idyllic times of independent Lithuania. A Trip Through Misty Meadows remains a shining example of the Lithuanian poetic documentary thanks to its unique cinematic language and visual allegories conveying a deep connection to the past, something that architects of the “new life” struggled to erase.
Henrikas Šablevičius made this film as a farewell to the siaurukas, a slow, narrow-gauge train recalling the idyllic times of independent Lithuania. The story was originally to be told with silent images only, but following preview screenings the filmmaker was instructed to add a voiceover. The criticism that “the film’s central hero cannot be a railway” led to the addition of a “human character” – the train’s overseer Povilas. Despite all this, A Trip Through Misty Meadows remains a shining example of the Lithuanian poetic documentary thanks to its unique cinematic language and visual allegories conveying a deep connection to the past, something that architects of the “new life” struggled to erase.
Elena Jasiūnaitė
11 min / Black & white, DCP
Director Henrikas Šablevičius
/ Screenplay Vidmantas Puplauskis, Henrikas Šablevičius
/ Dir. of Photography Kornelijus Matuzevičius
/ Music Romualdas Fedaravičius
/ Editor Regina Lazdauskienė
/ Production Lithuanian Film Studio
/ Sales Lithuanian Film Centre
Henrikas Šablevičius (1930–2004). Selected filmography: The Montage of the Altai (Altajaus montažas, 1969), Apolinaras (1973), A Trip Through Misty Meadows (Kelionė ūkų lankomis, 1973), A Sage (Žiniuonė, 1975), Little Sins (Mažos mūsų nuodėmės, 1979), Singers (Dainoriai, 1985), We Were at Our Own Field (Pabuvam savam lauki, 1988), Stagnant Years of Endurance (Sustingęs tvermės metas, 1990), A Homestead in Dzūkija (Dzūkų kiemas, 1997), Didn‘t Come (Neatėjo, 1999)
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