The Old Man and the Land
Overview
Robertas Verba’s first documentary film, described by film critic Živile Pipinyte as “the ‘ice-breaker’ which broke through the ice of Soviet ideology to form the peculiar stylistics of Lithuanian documentary film.” The hero of this film is the bright Lithuanian villager Anupras, whose archaic worldview becomes a symbol of the ethno-cultural Lithuanian identity that was often opposed to the identity constructed by Soviet propaganda.
About The Old Man and the Land (1965)
The Old Man and the Land (1965) is a documentary movie produced by Lithuanian Film Studio in Soviet Union. It was directed by Robertas Verba and written by Grigorijus Kanovičius and Vytautas Rimkevičius. With a runtime of 18m, the film averages 5.5/10 across 2 TMDB ratings.
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