Lithuanian Cinema: An Open History

An American Tragedy - Episode III

1 hr. 13 min. | Drama | Pegi 13

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Episode III: Passions

Disembarking by boat, Clyde notices a lovely girl, Robert Oven, who has just been hired to work in the department he heads, on the shore. Young people begin to meet and get closer. But the idyll doesn’t last long. The town's "golden youth" (especially active girls debating whether the more handsome is Clyde or his cousin Gilbert) decide to include an attractive young man in their amusement circle. A romance begins between him and the beautiful, rich, glorified Sondra. Just then, a thunderstorm from heaven strikes with the news of Robert’s pregnancy. She does not succumb to Clyde’s persuasions to terminate it. The young man is determined to commit a crime.


Marijonas Giedrys

Marijonas Giedrys

Marijonas Giedrys (1933 – 2011) directed 14 fiction films and 8 documentaries in 30 years, including The Living Heroes (1960), Northern Crusades (1972), Shattered Skies (1974), Blossoming of the Unsown Rye (1978) and A Profligate Son (1984). He was an artist with a realistic worldview. His films are characterized by a vivid social sound, high dramatic and sychological tension of action, open passions of the heroes.
Languages
Lithuanian
Produced
1981: Lithuania

Film information

Director
Marijonas Giedrys
Producers
Lietuvos kino studija
Screenplay
Pranas Morkus
Music
Laimutis Vilkončius
Cinematography
Algimantas Mockus
Cast
Gediminas Storpirštis, Ana Aleksachina, Aida Zara, Regimantas Adomaitis, Algirdas Šemeškevičius, Rimantas Siparis, Rūta Staliliūnaitė, Arūnas Storpirštis, Henrikas Kurauskas, Eugenija Pleškytė, Edgaras Liepinis, Antra Liedskalninia, Algimantas Masiulis, Aleksas Burnickas, Edita Sagatauskaitė, Remigijus Sabulis, Timofejus Spivakas, Valdemaras Chlebinskas, Vytautas Šapranauskas, Andrius Šiuša, Adolfas Večerskis, Nijolė Oželytė, Jonas Biržys, Algimantas Mockus, Kristina Andrejauskaitė, Algimantas Mažuolis, Algimantas Bružas, Lilija Mulevičiūtė, Vladas Bagdonas, Antanas Gabrėnas

Screenings

Friday, 12 November

14:00

Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum · Hall 1

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