Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR (2009)

Gênero : Documentário

Runtime : 4H 46M

Director : Jonas Mekas

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A meditation on the time when the world watched as filmmaker Jonas Mekas' home country of Lithuania fought for independence. An immersion into the addictive grasp of the 24-hour news cycle, into a moment of major social upheaval, and into one very personal fixation of an obsessive chronicler. The film exists in a shortened, four-screen version as well as a one-screen, full-length document.

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