Archive of films Mr. Landsbergis / Mr. Landsbergis
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 (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.).
Contacts
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About the film
Color, Black & White, DCP
Section: | Horizons |
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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 |