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  • Autre(s) titre(s): The Alive Heroes
  • Année: 1959
  • Description: The novel shoves children life in Lithuania. “You are expendable”. The main hero Juozukas lives in a poor family. He has been taken for a work to the farm as a shepherd directly from the lesson at school. The boy feels confusion worse confounding in his heart – he regrets for the home, for the school but at the same time he feels himself proud that he will start work and will give support to his family. Juozukas starts his journey to the new life in a cold rainy spring day. In the late evening he and the farmer arrive to the farm. Then they find that the former shepherd has returned back to the farm. He is elder, assured and has experience of the work. The farmer pays to Juozukas broken money “for trouble” and tells him to go home. Child has to go back all could and dark night. “You are expendable” – this is the last phrase of the novel. Screenplay has been written according the novel by Juozas Baltušis. „The Nightingale“. A day of World War II. One German soldier’ troop executes punishing actions in Lithuanian villages. A boy by pseudonym Nightingale shows the way for German troopers to Surmantai. The Nightingale is the supporter of the partisans and he leads Germans strait to the partisans’ ambush. The boy has a skill to imitate a trill of a nightingale and all the way he trills different melodies. The melodies are the encipher to the partisans about the enemies. Accidentally one German solder meets a villager who tells him, that Surmantai are in the opposite direction than they have been going all the time. Germans understand that they were misled. At the same time the partisans open the fire and the Nightingale escapes. After some time the boy sits by the roadside again and trills like a nightingale. Screenplay has been written according the novel by Petras Cvirka. „The Last Shot“. Somewhere in Lithuania after the World War II. A little girl Laima with white curly hairs meets with an overstressed, unshaven, hiding in the forests man which has a machinegun. The girl lives near the lake and takes care of swans. The man lost everything in the War – family, property, brothers in arms. He is trying to survive in a new, strange environment. Laima is like a part of a new, different life. Asking infantile questions about the recent events she tries to become a friend of the man. The swans living in the lake are like a joining link between the girl and the man. For the girl it is her toys, her concern and an occupation of everyday. For the tired, hopeless man it is a food and chance to live. But their acquaintance ends tragically: the mans’ bullet accidentally catches the girl when the man has tried to escape from the marsh of the lake. „The Alive Heroes“. This is the last novel which joins all previous novels together and tells about schoolboys in the Soviet period. The boys at their leisure time deliver the telegrams and meet different people – the heroes of everyday life. From the every new meeting they receive the new impressions and the new thoughts for their own future and career. There are many attractive chances around them, but it is very difficult to make the only one and the best choice. The problem which way to choose in their life looks absolutely unsolvable to them.
  • Mots-clés: II Pasaulinis karas / Kinas / Moksleiviai / Rezistencija / Žemės ūkis / Vaikai
  • Fournisseur: Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas
  • Droits: In Copyright / Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybes Archyvas
  • Couleur: Black & White
  • Director: Arūnas Žebriūnas
    Balys Bratkauskas
    Marijonas Giedrys
    Vytautas Žalakevičius
  • Sound: With sound