4 Films & TV Shows Set In Lithuania During The 20th Century

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  Cold Tango

  🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇷🇺 Russia The 1940s

  By 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.

  Released in 2017 • 98 minutes
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  Hannibal Rising

  🇫🇷 France 🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇩🇪 Germany 🇨🇦 Canada The 1950s The 1940s

  It started with revenge. — The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – 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.

  Released in 2007 • 121 minutes
• Utterly Alone

  🇱🇹 Lithuania The 1950s

  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.

  Released in 2004 •
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  Fact

  🇱🇹 Lithuania The 1940s

  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.

  Released in 1981 • 91 minutes