Vidas Petkevičius

Vidas Petkevičius

Born: July 13, 1949
in Žasliai, Lithuania

Movies for Vidas Petkevičius...

Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania
Title: Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania
Character: Jokūbas
Released: November 18, 2023
Type: Movie
A series of vignettes situated in an apartment in Vilnius conceive of the complexities of desire and love as seen through the fleeting experiences of five Airbnb guests, each in differing states of romantic entanglement and crisis.
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Parade
Title: Parade
Character: Kunigas Davidavičius
Released: March 3, 2023
Type: Movie
Miglė, who married when she was very young, has for 26 years been divorced from her ex-husband who one day calls her and asks for a favour. He has found that it would be a good time to get married again after the death of his mother. But there is a small problem: their divorce is valid only in the eyes of the law, because a Catholic marriage cannot be divorced. It can, however, be annulled. All that needs to be done is to complete an application and give the “Catholic court” a good reason. But she does not know in what kind of absurd situations she is about to find herself in.
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The Poet
Title: The Poet
Character: School head-master
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: Movie
A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children wilingly recite his verses from 'To My Soviet Motherland', written under pressure to prase Uncle Lenin. Eventually, an unforgotten friend shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon's underground bunker.
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Title: Netobuli genai
Released: February 28, 2022
Type: TV
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Family Unit
Title: Family Unit
Character: Kestutis
Released: March 22, 2019
Type: Movie
Migle’s grandfather has been living in an apartment that is too big for him. Two sibling families decided to move him out. In order to please Migle, Eimantas comes to grandfather’s home to help family move all the furniture. But not everyone in the family is happy about his presence.
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Purpurinis rūkas
Title: Purpurinis rūkas
Character: Daugela
Released: February 6, 2019
Type: Movie
'Purple Smoke' tells the complex story of Lithuanian Jew Jozef, partisan commander Vlad and their two beloved Janes.
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Emilia
Title: Emilia
Character: Aktorius
Released: February 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Soviet Lithuania in 1972. A young theatre actress is trying to make a difference and tell the forbidden story of repression in a play.
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Kings' Shift
Title: Kings' Shift
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: Movie
A rookie policeman is left alone in a private clinic to guard a comatose suspect of World War II crimes. His shift is long over, yet nobody comes to replace him. However, the youngster is determined not to leave his post until he gets permission from his authorities to do so. Lack of sleep, loneliness, hunger and the persistence to serve his duty turn the young man into a ticking time bomb at the very wrong time. He must decide how far he can go guarding this suspect who is hated to death by everyone.
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Garden of Eden
Title: Garden of Eden
Released: September 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Lithuania in the near future. The land is full of rich immigrants. Rich Lithuanians that were scattered throughout the world return to Lithuania to spend their golden years in luxurious nursing homes; and the laws that govern life and death provide a feeling of security... The residents of the Garden of Eden look upon this "global theatre of life" with tearful smiles and great wisdom.
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Lost Valentine
Title: Lost Valentine
Released: February 7, 2014
Type: Movie
This adventurous romantic comedy with a light hint of eroticism tells the story of Valentine’s night miracles – it is a night, when everyone should stop lying to themselves – and to others.
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Wolf Children
Title: Wolf Children
Released: August 28, 2013
Type: Movie
The story of a boy who, driven by the search for his lost brother in the turmoil of WWII, joins a group of children in order to survive the chaos of post-war anarchy in the haunted forests of Lithuania.
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Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda
Title: Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda
Character: Gruinius
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
A romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army
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Bergen
Title: Bergen
Released: October 2, 2009
Type: Movie
Two men meet in a run-down Vilnius restaurant - an old man and a young thug named Vytas. After a couple of drinks, the old man suggests that Vytas, who is emigrating to Bergen the following day, can save the restaurant's singer from hardship if he were to take her away with him.
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Defiance
Title: Defiance
Character: Avram Rubinski
Released: December 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
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Nazis and Blondes
Title: Nazis and Blondes
Character: Self
Released: May 9, 2008
Type: Movie
Veteran actors from the 3 Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - gather at a castle in Latvia to receive awards for their roles as Nazi villains in propagandist Soviet war films. They reminisce about the films that made them famous throughout the USSR, but also stigmatized the Baltic countries as Nazi sympathizers in the eyes of many Russians - a misconception that is nowadays exploited by the Russian media, desperate to label the Baltic countries as a fascist haven.
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Title: Russian Dolls: Sex Trade
Character: Daria's Father
Released: January 5, 2005
Type: TV
Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.
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Perilous
Title: Perilous
Character: Vladimir
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A lawyer is on a business trip to St. Petersburg. When a beautiful woman on the run runs into him and asks for help, he is thrown into a dangerous world of jewel thieves and gangsters.
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A Wolf Teeth Necklace
Title: A Wolf Teeth Necklace
Character: Tadas
Released: June 6, 1997
Type: Movie
Algimantas Puipa directed this 1997 drama about a painter wrestling with childhood memories of his father being exiled to Siberia.
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Lunar Lithuania
Title: Lunar Lithuania
Character: Spielskis
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Lunar Lithuania is a 1998 drama film written by Saulius Saltenis and directed by Gytis Luksas.
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Ticket to the Taj Mahal
Title: Ticket to the Taj Mahal
Character: Anicetas
Released: February 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A feature film based on the short story "Fabijonas" by R. Šavelis.
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Hedda Gabler
Title: Hedda Gabler
Character: Jorgenas Tesmanas
Released: October 23, 1988
Type: Movie
Life of a femme fatale; a picture of a strong-willed woman is created, capable of becoming the queen of fate, killed by the urban environment and the fear of living her own life...
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Weekend in Hell
Title: Weekend in Hell
Character: Teacher
Released: December 9, 1987
Type: Movie
Two POWs - Russian and Lithuanian - are trying to escape a German Camp during WWII.
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The Eternal Light
Title: The Eternal Light
Released: December 3, 1987
Type: Movie
Lithuanian countryside in the 1950s. People live with mixed memories of an independent Lithuania, no one believes in the myths of a future Soviet Lithuania, but everyone clings tenaciously, out of inner inertia, to the opportunities offered by even the smallest personal farm. This is a film that subtly tells the story of love and the beginnings of a peaceful life in the countryside: the surveyor is tormented by Pranė, who has fallen in love with him unrequitedly, Amilia, who has fallen in love with Zigmas, but is married to the surveyor, Anicetas, the village philosopher, Bernasius, knows it all: if there is an eternal darkness, there is also an eternal light...
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Pirosmani, Pirosmani...
Title: Pirosmani, Pirosmani...
Character: sargas
Released: May 24, 1987
Type: Movie
About the last days of the great Niko Pirosmanishvili, who died alone. And his only interlocutors were the heroes of the paintings...
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Electronic Granny
Title: Electronic Granny
Character: Agatha's father
Released: January 31, 1985
Type: Movie
Agata is badly ill and nobody knows how to cure her. No doctor can help. Friends of Agata learn, that she is ill, because all children have Grannies but Agata does not. They go to the shop "Electronic Granny" and beg the dealer to sell them one Electronic Granny. The dealer warns them, that her electronic circuits are very sensitive - and this Granny will only work if loved. Agata get healthy and plays with her new Granny and other friends. Granny can invite new games and even fly with all children to the Moon. But later due to the jealousy and bad heabits children forget that they must love Granny, they begin to treat her just as a robot that "must do what they ask". As a result Granny dies. To resurect her Agata and friends must get off their ambitions, rudeness, jealousy and again become loving, cheerful and kind.
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Dance of the Little Swans
Title: Dance of the Little Swans
Character: Kęstas
Released: February 22, 1984
Type: Movie
A once-separated couple decides to celebrate their wedding anniversary and gets into troubles.
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A Woman and Her Four Men
Title: A Woman and Her Four Men
Character: Elder son
Released: April 1, 1983
Type: Movie
An epic tale set at the turn of the 20th century in a struggling fishing community, following the life of a woman widowed at the beginning of the film.
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Žaltvykslės
Title: Žaltvykslės
Character: būgnininkas
Released: September 5, 1980
Type: Movie
A little boy and a story teller look into the microscope to find out that the world in a drop of a water looks like a real world, so they dive into it and meet different personalities, miracles and events.
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Journey to Paradise
Title: Journey to Paradise
Character: Francas
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
The rich widow Marta Anker, owner of a renowned trading company, loves the poor fisherman Ansą Balčiai. The locals keep the ongoings under close watch.
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The Devil's Seed
Title: The Devil's Seed
Character: Fiodoras
Released: December 5, 1979
Type: Movie
In the Lithuanian village of Lietuvos, a farmer brings his sheltered nephew, Joni, to the rich Bani. By biting the prospective host's hand, the teenager gains the nickname of "the devil's seed."
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Unseeded Rye Blossom
Title: Unseeded Rye Blossom
Character: Aleksius
Released: November 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A man who abandoned his wife and son 20 years ago is forced to deal with the consequences.
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Sodybų tuštėjimo metas
Title: Sodybų tuštėjimo metas
Character: mokinys Minkus
Released: May 25, 1978
Type: Movie
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Earth the Foster-Mother
Title: Earth the Foster-Mother
Character: kaimietis
Released: July 14, 1977
Type: Movie
The peasant Juras Tarutis takes part in the struggle for independent Lithuania and in the election campaign for the Sejm, painfully experiencing the fascist coup in 1926. At first, he firmly believes in land reform and only after difficult trials, he become disillusioned with the reform and with the bourgeois system itself.