Adventures of Gustav is a spectacular CGI / live-action family film with unique visuals. The main characters Gustav and Professor Easter Christmassen are well known and beloved by local audiences from educational and award winning TV series for family ‘Gustav’s encyclopedia’ broadcast since 1999 on National Public Television Channel in Lithuania. This show has been introducing children to the world and its wonders for 20 years already.
In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beam stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jew Chief of Police Gens uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.
The film portrays Lukša's attempts, in trips to western Europe, to gain support for the armed anti-Soviet resistance (known as the Forest Brothers), whose fortunes in a guerrilla war against Soviet authorities were waning, largely due to widespread infiltration and harsh crackdowns by the NKVD.
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Desperate to get custody of his son, a divorcing man hires a hit man to kill his wife but quickly regrets this decision.
