Jonas Gricius Movies

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're...

Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev....

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...

An examination of the trials and tribulations of the Jordache family, from the period following World War II to the late 1960s.

The movie, based on a story by Yuri Nagibin, depicts a young girl named Vika enjoying the last days of summer vacations in a sea resort somewhere in...

The rich widow Marta Anker, owner of a renowned trading company, loves the poor fisherman Ansą Balčiai. The locals keep the ongoings under...

The young machine operator Fyodor Soloveikov marries Stesha from a neighboring village and moves to live with her parents in a house. Young and...

A lithuanian village just after the end of the second World War: Neither German nor Russian its inhabitants must, despite their wounds, find new...

Four different stories about young kids' destinies in different time periods in Lithuania.

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...

Under the USSR oppression a family breaks up and its members find themselves on opposite sides of the barricades. Based on the Mykolas Sluckis'...

Lithuania, 1941. German tanks and motorized columns broke into the border military town. Seven Soviet soldiers were cut off from the garrison....

An isolated village in the Lithuanian countryside. Seated in her house, an elderly woman recites an old folk story. Then she climbs up the tall...

Two stories about the relationships between the peasants and the noblemen in a Lithuanian village during the period of feudalism.

Vabalas’s thesis film “Footsteps in the Night” (1962) portrays Kaunas in 1943, occupied by the German army. Alex, who recently...

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov.

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,...

Paris, 1955. Fraudster Georges de Valera, hiding from the police, with the help of a correspondent for the reactionary newspaper Sibilo, poses as...

Hour of the Full Moon is set in the 17th century and deals with religious fanaticism and the political pressures that individuals have to endure.

The Lithuanian coast which belonged to the Soviet Union was harrowed night after night. Intrusive soldiers and negligent passers-by left their...