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Filmmaker · Lithuania

Arūnas Žebriūnas

Died in 2013

Arūnas Žebriūnas was born on 8 August 1930 in Kaunas, son of an officer. A graduate in architecture in 1955, he joined the Lithuanian film studio as a painter, then was a director there from 1959 to 1993, after a placement at Mosfilm under Mikhail Romm. He began with an episode of the collective film Gyvieji didvyriai, which won a prize at Karlovy Vary. A filmmaker of childhood confronting reality, he adapted Saint-Exupéry and Astrid Lindgren and made the first Lithuanian musical comedy. A member of Sąjūdis, he died in Vilnius on 9 September 2013.

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