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Weitere Titel: Adam Wants to Be a Man
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Jahr: 1959
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Beschreibung: „Adam Wants to Be a Man – the firs artistically solid and significant Lithuanian feature film. (…) The film director V.Žalakevičius, together with a talented team (there the first time in cinema exults a modern psychological style of Panevėžys Drama School) was able to join different influences to integral, unique, touched a little bit by retro mist and therefore timeless individual creation. Among the ordinary Soviet cinematography Adam Wants to Be a Man created surprising, all European film impression” – so, the well known Lithuanian film reviewer Saulius Macaitis wrote about the film. The main hero of the film is a young, handsome guy Adam short of money and job, lives in an old abandoned barge with eccentric barge Captain. After hearing Captain’s stories about foreign countries he decides to emigrate. He gets employed as an office-boy in an emigration bureau and starts saving money for the ticket to Buenos Aires. At the same time Captain makes a deal with insurance company agent to insure and later to sink an old barge with all loads in the Nemunas and after it to steal insurance money. The owner of the emigration bureau Dausa also weaves a deception plan. He persuades a rich owner of the restaurant nicknamed an American to invest half a million Litas into his business whereas he is going to make off from the country. At that time Adam takes part in a worker’s who shot a manufacturer and later shot himself funeral. The funeral turns to a socialist’s demonstration. A squad of mounted police scatters the demonstrators and beats up Adam. Adam feels put down and lonely. Then Adam meets a girl Lucy who is also dreaming about overseas countries. The two young people fall in love one to another and decide to emigrate together. However the American loves Lucy too and promises the restaurant for her. American offers Adam money for a ticket to Buenos Aires for leaving Lucy. Adam in despair takes the money and returns to the barge where meets with a socialist Petras who is hiding from the police. Lucy runs away from home and starts living with Adam in barge. Finally they decide to leave abroad. Adam asks for a help his boss Dausa who is interested in Lucy too. The cheater promises to help Lucy leave the country. However Adam has money only for one ticket and he gives it all to Lucy. He promises to arrive as soon as he saves money for his ticket. Dausa having stolen money from potential emigrants, a lot of debts leaves abroad with completely confused Lucy. Adam after reading in a newspaper about Dausa’s fraud realizes that he was fooled. The young men feels as the whole world collapses moreover the Captain drowns together with the barge. He is leaft without shelter, money and hope about the better life. Shelter to alone and lost in life Adam offers a lame custodian of port, socialist’s Petras father. Adam remains to waiting Petras but his future is a very foggy.
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Schlüsselwörter: Emigrantai / Kinas
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Sammlung:
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Anbieter: Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas
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Rechte: In Copyright / Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybes Archyvas
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Farbe: Black & White
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Regie: Vaclovas Blėdis
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Ton: With sound
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- Vytautas Žalakevičius | Screenplay
- Vytautas Sirijos Gira | Screenplay
- Vaclovas Blėdis | Director
- Vytautas Žalakevičius | Director
- Algirdas Šimkus | Director of photography
- Algimantas Mockus | Director of photography
- Eduardas Balsys | Music composer
- Viktorija Bimbaitė | Costume designer
- Š.Berelovičius | Producer
- Algirdas Ničius | text editor
- J.Batuneris | Dubbing director