Feature film
A Woman and Her Four Men
Moteris ir keturi jos vyrai
Algimantas Puipa · 1983
Synopsis
On the Curonian Spit, at the end of the nineteenth century, an old fisherman and his two sons find on the beach a man dead in a shipwreck. His widow, alone in the world, comes to live with the three men in their house half buried by the shifting dunes. The years pass, and the family faces loss, poverty and injustice, in a pitiless nature threatened by sandstorms and floods.
Context
The filmmaker wrote the screenplay himself after a short story by the Dane Holger Drachmann, set in Skagen, and transposed it to the Lithuanian coast. Jonas Tomaševičius shot the film in colour, to music by Juozas Širvinskas, with Jūratė Onaitytė, Antanas Šurna and Vidas Petkevičius; Lithuanian and German are spoken in it. The Lübeck festival notes its calm images of a harsh landscape and an archaic frugality, and the platform Klassiki counts it among the most beautiful Lithuanian films of the Soviet era.
Who it is for
A film of an hour and a half, poetic and dark, with almost anonymous characters; no French release has been found.
Prizes and reception
Prize for best cinematography in Chișinău in 1983 and prize at the Union film festival in Kiev in 1984.
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