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BARAS
2009 | 49 min. | Documentary | Lithuania | Watch film online
Director
Giedrė Žickytė
Producers
Tadas Patalavičius, Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė
Cinematographer
Audrius Kemežys
Editor
Giedrė Žickytė
Production
Just a moment (LT)
Financier
LRT - Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LT)
Synopsis
Arturas Barysas-Baras - film artist, actor collector of music, literature, etc, the leader and vocal of avantgarde music band "And Everything what is Beautiful is Beautiful", Vilnius citizen. Some people thought he was a simple tramp. Others considered him liberty ambassador sending to the world signs of freedom - form creative ideas to western books and music records. He was one of the most vivid soviet Lithuanian underground people who were not afraid to declare freedom when all of its forms were forbidden. But when soviet system collapsed he could not find himself in a world because "freedom" does not like to be put I in any kind of system no matter how liberal it is. Five years after his death Baras' best friends meet to find the answers who was Baras and how has his beloved Vilnius changed being without him.
Awards and festivals
2009 The Best TV film at National Film awards "Silver Crane" (LT)
2009 Vilnius Documentary film festival (LT)
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