19 Films & TV Shows Set In Lithuania
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The Pagan King
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania ๐ฑ๐ป Latvia The 13th CenturyLive free or die. โ Northern Europe. 13th century. Last pagan settlement near the Baltic Sea. The evil and cynical warrior crusader Max von Buxhoveden is trying to destroy the pagan beliefs of the people by spreading lies and fostering dissent. Old king of the last free pagan lands is on his deathbed and without an heir to take his place. Max wants to take over the throne and reign over old kingโs tribe. Unexpectedly, with his dying breath the King passes on his ring to his nephew Namejs. The youngster, who grew up amongst pagan priests and studied ancient wisdoms, now has to defend his people. Will he be able to unravel the secret of the Ring and gain its power?
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The Spy Who Dumped Me
California ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฑ๐น Lithuania ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐จ๐ฟ Czechia ๐ฉ๐ช GermanyThey got this โ Audrey and Morgan, two thirty-year-old best friends in Los Angeles, are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audreyโs ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail.
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Baltic Tribes
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania ๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐ธ๐ช Sweden The 13th CenturyDocuDrama about 13th century pre-Christian culture. Danish spy Lars enters the tribal lands of the Baltic peoples, where he takes part in religious rites, cruel forays, gets high during the Summer Solstice, becomes slave to the Couronians and even fights the crusaders. Who were the last pagans of Europe and how did they live? It is a unique trip into the textures of the past and into the unknown lands of the Baltic Tribes.
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The Golem
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania The 17th CenturyAn ancient legend reborn โ A re-imagining of the old mystical folklore that follows a woman and a tight-knit Jewish community that is besieged by foreign invaders. She conjures a dangerous creature to protect them but it may be more evil than she ever imagined.
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Cold Tango
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940sBy miracle he avoided death and returns to the house where he was born. In the house now lives the love of his life. But the hope for happiness turns sour with a terrible discovery: his beloved is the daughter of his enemy.
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The Summer of Sangaile
๐ฑ๐น LithuaniaSeventeen-year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at the summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents' lakeside villa. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds in her teenage love, the only person that truly encourages her to fly.
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Persona Non Grata
๐ฑ๐น LithuaniaThe story of a Japanese diplomat, sometimes called the Schindler of Japan, and his life lading up to and after his decision to issue over 2,000 visas to Jewish refugees in Kaunas, Lithuania resulting in saving the lives of over 6,000 people. This is the story of a man who believed in doing all he could do for the benefit of his beloved Japan, including trying to keep her from becoming embroiled in a worldwide conflict he saw as inevitable. Along the way, he came face to face with the plight of the European Jews as they tried to escape the onslaught of the Nazi's and the rapidly advancing German army. Caught between the unbending policies of his country now bound by treaty with Nazi Germany and his awakening moral responsibilities, we follow his life from his early days in Manchuria to his eventual posting in Lithuania and his appointment with destiny which would forever brand him a hero.
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Redirected
England ๐ฑ๐น Lithuania ๐ท๐บ RussiaRight crime. Wrong country. โ Four friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.
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Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania The 1840sA romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army
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Hannibal Rising
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฑ๐น Lithuania ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐จ๐ฆ Canada The 1950s The 1940sIt started with revenge. โ The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter โ from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a med student he hones his appetite for the kill.
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Highlander: The Source
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania ๐ฎ๐น ItalyIn a world without end, their will is eternal. But a quest for the source of immortality will awaken the Guardian. โ The world is falling into chaos. As he roams a crumbling city, Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander, remembers happier times before the love of his life left... Hopeless and alone, MacLeod finds his way to a band of immortal companions, including his mysterious friend Methos, and a mortal, Watcher Joe Dawson. Together this small group sets out on a quest to find the origin of the first Immortal.
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Before Flying Back to Earth
๐ฑ๐น LithuaniaA short documentary about a hospital ward for children with leukemia in Lithuania.
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Utterly Alone
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania The 1950sThe film portrays Lukลกa'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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Anastasiya Slutskaya
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania The 16th CenturyThe action takes place at the beginning of the 16th century. The rich Belarusian lands that are part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, located at the intersection of trade routes, are attacked by Tatars. With rapid raids, the Crimean cavalry reaches all Belarusian cities without exception. The conquerors stormed the fortress, robbed, stole the population into slavery, leaving behind ashes. On the way, the troops of the Crimean Tatars, among the few who have not yet been defeated, stand up to the brave squad and brave residents of the city of Slutsk, whose defense after the death of the husband of Prince Semyon Olelkovich was led by Princess Anastasia Slutskaya.
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Pan Tadeusz
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania The 1810s The 18th CenturyA grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.
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The Corridor
๐ฑ๐น LithuaniaThe atmosphere of a corridor between yesterday and tomorrow, where many doors open into the unknown. A series of faces, gestures and images both real and imagined time. A fragmentary narrative without dialogue depicting several people in Vilnius.
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Fact
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania The 1940sFacts 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.
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
๐ฑ๐น LithuaniaA 1971โ72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas' trip back to Semeniลกkiai, the village of his birth.
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Jons und Erdme
๐ฑ๐น LithuaniaAdaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors.