Juozas Rigertas

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov.

A lithuanian village just after the end of the second World War: Neither German nor Russian its inhabitants must, despite their wounds, find new craft to dream of a better future ahead of them.

The fraud of officials, the thirst for money and a good life, their immorality is compared with the decency of the intelligentsia, intrigue and fear of losing everything when power changes; comical situations are created, but it seems that you don’t have to believe that something will change, because the office of an official changes decent people too....

The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Crimea, the actors of the drama theater of the city of Simferopol entered the underground group Sokol. The activities of the underground members were diverse: they put up leaflets with information from Soviet Information Bureau, compiled maps showing the strategic objects of the enemy, and supplied the partisans with medicines. On April 10, 1944, 3 days before the liberation of Simferopol, the underground members died from enemy bullets — they were shot on the outskirts of the city.

The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between the Soviets and the "brothers in the woods", who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets after the end of the Second World War.

Evolving grim drama of love and wealth. The action takes you to the pre-war and shows the different social strata in rural life, everyday life, passions.

A story about an events occurred in Belarus in 1944 during the WWII.

Two episodes about the relationship between men and women in the Lithuanian Soviet era. In the first one, Laima decides to leave her alcoholic husband and run away with priest Vaisieta. In the second one, long-distance driver Bronius decides to change his life after years of a careless lifestyle.