This film is Robertas Verba’s directorial debut. As film critic Živilė Pipinytė puts it, “this film was the ‘ice-breaker’ who broke through the ice of Soviet ideology to form the peculiar stylistics of Lithuanian documentary film”. The hero of the film is the bright Lithuanian villager Anupras whose archaic worldview becomes a symbol of the ethno-cultural Lithuanian identity that was often opposed to the identity constructed by the Soviet propaganda.

This film is part of the program "Landscapes of Forbidden Memory", curated by Audrius Stonys.

SCREENED WITH
A Trip Across Misty Meadow 
Henrikas Šablevičius
1973, Lithuania, 11’
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No Foe Can Scare Us 
Edmundas Zubavičius 
1978, Lithuania, 11'
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The Dreams of Centenarians 
Robertas Verba 
1969, Lithuania, 20’ 
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Sensitivity as Bread 
Edmundas Zubavičius 
1979, Lithuania, 10’