Archive of films Mr. Landsbergis / Mr. Landsbergis

Netherlands / Lithuania / USA
2021, 248 min

Section: Horizons
Year: 2022

A portrait of one man, a national awakening, and cyclical history. Under the steadfast leadership of professor Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania managed to break free from its enforced Soviet brotherhood. The events of 1988–1991 are presented through period footage, interspersed with insightful reflections from the main protagonist. The essential anthropologist Sergei Loznitsa again presents history in an agonizingly topical light.


Synopsis

Music professor Vytautas Landsbergis dreamed of living a quiet family life. But in the 1980s, his hatred of communism and his yearning for his country to regain independence led him to enter politics and thus not only to free Lithuania from the oppressive embrace of the Soviet Union but also to accelerate that empire’s collapse. Sergei Loznitsa’s journey thirty years back in time is an almost prophetic statement about the situation today. Period footage showing important moments in the Lithuanian revolution is interspersed with insightful interviews with the film’s main protagonist. This portrait of an engaged citizen and charismatic leader uncovers both the political background of past events and the unsettlingly topical traits of Russia’s great power mentality.

Kamila Dolotina

About the director

Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa (1964, Baranovichi, Belarus). Selected filmography: Blockade (Blokada, 2005, doc.), My Joy (Schastye moyo, 2010), In the Fog (V tumane, 2012), Maidan (2014, doc.), Donbass (2018), The Trial (Process, 2018, doc.), State Funeral (Gosudarstvennye pokhorony, 2019, doc.), Babi Yar. Context (2021, doc.).

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About the film

Color, Black & White, DCP

Section: Horizons
   
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Screenplay: Sergei Loznitsa, Vytautas V. Landsbergis
Dir. of Photography: Jonas Zagorskas, Pēteris Sudakovs
Sound: Saulius Urbanavičius
Editor: Danielius Kokanauskis
Producer: Uljana Kim
Production: Studio Uljana Kim
Coproduction: Atoms & Void, Current Time TV
Sales: ATOMS & VOID
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