Feature film
Žydrasis horizontas
Vytautas Mikalauskas · 1957
Synopsis
The Blue Horizon: boys dream of entering naval school and setting off for distant seas. Two of them, Vytukas and Saulius, run away from home to become sailors and take the road to the sea with the help of Tiburcijus, a cunning swindler. The film sets the romanticism of childhood against reality and the life of adults, which is not always a pleasant sight.
Context
The screenplay is by Romualdas Lankauskas; Algimantas Mockus did the cinematography and Eduardas Balsys the music. It was its director's first feature film, whose lyrical style foreshadowed, according to the platform Klassiki, a manner that would later mark Lithuanian cinema. Restored, the film was presented again from 3 to 5 December 2018 in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, in the presence of Laurynas Vakaris Lopas, who became a composer and conductor and who played Saulius as a child in it; public television then broadcast it with restored sound.
Who it is for
An adventure comedy for children, in Lithuanian, which also speaks to adults; no French release has been found.
Prizes and reception
The first feature film produced by the Lithuanian studio with its own resources alone, and the first Lithuanian film for children.
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