Kostas Smoriginas
Birthday: Born in 1953-04-22 in Kaunas, Lithuania
Deathday: Alive
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Николай Вавилов
Character: Nikolay Vavilov
Biopic devoted to the history of the life of Soviet biologist, academician Nikolai Vavilov. His scientific and personal confrontation with Trofim Lysenko, the subsequent arrest and death of the scientist in prison....
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Parade
Character: Teisėjas Artūras
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 s...
Who's Stronger Than Him
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Follows the events of August 1918 in Tsarevokokshaisk (Yoshkar-Ola), when the White Guards, led by local princes, were preparing a coup....
Loss
Character: Ben
A mentally ill young woman Valda convinces herself that a boy growing up in an orphanage is her child. Following the footsteps of a thousands Lithuanians, she immigrates to Ireland to earn money to save him. "Loss" portrays the beauty and tragedy of the human heart....
Ночной таверны огонёк
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Royal Opera House: Carmen
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Carmen declares that any man she loves should beware. However, even she is unprepared for what will happen when she decides to seduce Don José, an army corporal who initially appears uninterested in her charms. Don José soon abandons his sweetheart Micaëla and his army job for Carmen, and joins her and her smuggler friends in the mountains. But Carmen quickly wearies of Don José's possessiveness. When she turns her attentions to the dashing toreador Escamillo, Don José's jealousy erupts into vio...
Whisper of Sin
Character: Go
A nearly-suicidal, young woman visits a psychotherapist. She is in love with a priest, and the diagnosis of her husband's mental illness leaves no hope. The psychotherapist, in her attempts to resolve the amassed difficulties, seemingly begins to duplicate the life stages and behavioral patterns of her patient. A script for this film is based on motifs from the best-seller, scandalous novel, Witch and Rain, by female author, Jurga Ivanauskaite. By choosing a priest as the main role for a love st...
When the Oaks Were Falling
Character: Adomėlis "Čigonas"
A faithful adaptation of the story of famous Lithuanian author Baltusis both in subject and artistic presentation. Three brothers Laurynas, Stanislovas and Antanas fall in love with one woman Kazyte and dramatic events make all three brothers go to jail for homicide, while she lives alone on their land....
The Eternal Light
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A land surveyor marries a young woman, but she falls for a reckless machine-operator, while a local buffet worker harbors unrequited love for the surveyor, entangling the four isolated villagers in a web of passion and tragic despair....
The Beast Rising from the Sea
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Based on a novel by Evgeny Zamyatin. In 1920s Petrograd, childless couple Trofim and his wife Sofya adopt their late neighbor’s daughter, thirteen-year-old Ganka, only for Ganka to begin a scandalous affair with her foster father. When Sofya’s despair over the incest drives her to murder Ganka with an axe and conceal the body during a flood, Trofim reports her “missing” to the police, who never recover the corpse. Sofya later becomes pregnant, confesses to the killing, and Trofim, moved by love ...
Walnut Bread
Character: Peliūkštis
In rural postwar Lithuania, the Šatai and Kaminskai families live beside each other. A cow sold to the Kaminskai dies, creating enmity between the families. Andrius Šatas and Liuka Kaminskaitė grow up together and fall in love....
His Wife's Confession
Character: Juodis
A film about the psychological crisis of a woman in her 40s as she tries to create the illusion of love - looking for herself in love and love in herself....
Ticket to the Taj Mahal
Character: Zigmas
A feature film based on the short story "Fabijonas" by R. Šavelis....
Markizas ir piemenaitė
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At the end of the war, a French plane was shot down by the Germans near the Nemunas River, but the injured pilot Andrė parachuted into a Lithuanian village. Domas, a miller, hides him in his mill, while young Saulė, who was Domas' bride, nurses him. They fall in love, but shortly after, Andrė's squadron mates Arrive. Five years after the end of the war, Saulė is still waiting for the Frenchman, who is said to have died near Nemunas....
Christmas. Uncensored
Character: Richard
Nowadays Lithuania, the country with strong traditions of Catholicism and society's negative attitude to minorities (homophobia). The tragicomedy is built through the destiny of a young woman Anna, whose secret lights out during the Christmas Eve and it immediatelly erupts an avalanche of dark events, connecting each family member. The question - what would happen, if... - remains. They had a choice to avoid this fatal trip, BUT it doesn't mean nothing has happened....
Journey to Paradise
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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....
Fact
Character: Investigator (voice)
Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a few survivors, the testimony of villagers, and some of the Germans responsible for the killing, the film gradually reconstructs the event and its context....
A Woman and Her Four Men
Character: Beggar
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....
Time of the Full Moon
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In 16th century Lithuania, where the plague is raging, a fanatical Jesuit comes to eradicate paganism. The fanatic begins his activity, entering into a struggle with everything that he considers a pagan deviation from the true faith. Especially he is alarmed by Pima, the daughter of a local priest who does not intend to hide her adherence to pagan rituals. But the fight takes a completely unexpected shade: the hero realizes that he is obsessed with passion and can not resist the temptation…...
Cinephilia
Character: Sesilijos tėvas
With gentle irony, “Cinephilia” unmasks the illusion of film. Characters migrate through the worlds of reality and fantasy, in circumstances that paradoxically have no questions or answers. The two moons of Lars von Trier shine in the night sky, entrancing the main heroes, Roland and Isabel. Roland rents himself a room where he winds up in situations reminiscent of the plots found in Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” or Roman Polański’s “The Tenant”. A guy visits Roland, claiming that they known each ot...
Pirosmani, Pirosmani...
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About the last days of the great Niko Pirosmanishvili, who died alone. And his only interlocutors were the heroes of the paintings......
A Streetcar Named Desire
Character: Stenlis
As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski....
My Mother Gave Birth to Me Happy...
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The film takes place in 1944 in a Moldovan village that had just been liberated by the Soviet Army. A young teacher creates a school pioneer organization. He is opposed by the school principal, who is hiding a fascist agent. With the help of a young teacher and his students, police officers manage to neutralize the criminal....
I'll Not Become a Gangster, Dear
Character: 'Mazylis' Bredis
A criminal story based on the novels by O. Henry....
The Devil's Seed
Character: Jonis
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."...
Lost Farmland
Character: mokinys Petkus
The film covers the events in Lithuania in 1940-1945 and tells about the life of the Lithuanian intelligentsia. The characters are placed in crisis situations, when the problem of choosing a path, the problem of social and historical self-determination of the fate of the people and each person inevitably arises....
The Coincidence of Circumstance
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I'm Sorry
Character: Daktaras Jonas Kondrotas
Pranas, now a celebrity singer, returns to his homeland from a big city. He is greeted at the airport and driven to his native village by a childhood friend Jonas, who works there as a doctor....
Royal Opera House: La Traviata
Character: Il Marchese d'Obigny
Renée Fleming has matured into one of the finest sopranos around at the moment, a true star with a sparkling personality and a velvet-toned voice that is capable of wringing the finest emotions out of works by Strauss and Tchaikovsky that from a lesser singer could sound rather cold and clinical. I wouldn't have thought her voice would be so well suited to Violetta Valéry in La Traviata, and it does take some getting used to, but I think she at least brings a distinct quality to the role with an...
Chameleon Games
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Paris, 1955. Fraudster Georges de Valera, hiding from the police, with the help of a correspondent for the reactionary newspaper Sibilo, poses as Minister Dubov, who allegedly escaped from the Soviet Union. Sibilo's daughter explains to Georges the purpose of the planned action: to slander progressive journalists with the help of the false Dubov. De Valera, not wanting to become a participant in the provocation, goes into hiding. But instead they find another candidate for the role of Dubov......