MR LANDSBERGIS
Lithuania, The Netherlands, USA2021documentary248'Mistrzowie (2022)
Today, in the context of Russian aggression, this film’s message is doubly powerful. In March 1990, Lithuania was the first Soviet republic to declare independence, which resulted in economic sanctions and military aggression from the collapsing empire. The most important figure was Vytautas Landsbergis, who led the country’s struggle for sovereignty. Being a detailed chronicle of these events, consisting of archival footage and contemporary interviews with the politician, the films shows painstaking negotiations, dramatic moments, sudden twists of action and the realisation that history could have turned out very differently.
- directed by
- Sergei Loznitsa
Ukrainian director of documentary and fiction films. In 1987 he graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. Between 1987 and 1991 he worked as a scientist at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics. In 1997 Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. He has been making documentary films from 1996, 16 of which won awards at numerous festivals. His fiction films include My Joy and In the Fog.
- cinematography
- Jonas Zagorskas, Pēteris Sudakovs
- script
- Vytautas V Landsbergis, Sergei Loznitsa
- sound
- Saulius Urbanavičius
- editing
- Danielus Kokanauskis
- production
- Uljana Kim (Studio Uljana Kim)
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