CRITICAL – Lithuanian filmmaker Sharunas Bartas signs a pictorial historical drama, crossed by poetic flashes. In the heart of a Lithuania occupied by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War, in 1948, General Winter leans with all his silent power the lid of economic, political and military repression. Here the sky […]
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Jean-Christophe Buisson: “A Baltic chouannerie”
CHRONICLE – A gripping film about anti-Russian and anti-communist resistance in Lithuania after 1944. It is an anti-Communist Partisan war, so rarely told in history books or in the cinema. In Lithuania, the day after the liberation of the country occupied by the Nazis, men and women took up arms against the new invader: the […]