Forest of the Gods (film)
Forest of the Gods (Dievų miškas) | |
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Directed by | Algimantas Puipa |
Written by | Ričardas Gavelis Algimantas Puipa |
Produced by | Robertas Urbonas |
Starring | Valentinas Masalskis Steven Berkoff Liubomiras Laucevičius Rolandas Boravskis Šarūnas Puidokas Robertas Urbonas Saulius Mykolaitis Monika Bičiūnaitė |
Cinematography | Algimantas Mikutenas |
Edited by | John Grover |
Music by | Kipras Masanauskas |
Distributed by | Garsų pasaulio įrašai |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
Countries | Lithuania United Kingdom |
Language | Lithuanian |
Budget | €1,700,000 EUR(est.) |
Forest of the Gods (Lithuanian: Dievų miškas) is a 2005 film, directed by Algimantas Puipa, based on the Balys Sruoga novel of the same name.
Plot
The story is about one man — who is an artist and an intellectual — he was imprisoned by two brutal regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets. 'The Professor' is a man who lives by his own personal version of the Ten Commandments. After miraculously surviving imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a bit of ironic fate, he writes a memoir of his life, which becomes the target of the Soviet censors. The so-called "freedom" of Communism becomes just as oppressive as the German concentration camp.
Criticism
The 98-year-old Vladislovas Telksnys, the only Lithuanian survivor of the Stutthof concentration camp in 2013, referred to the movie as "a piece of nonsense". In particular he referred to the scene depicting a Gestapo officer marching and a woman with an umbrella following behind. According to Telksnys, "there were no such things".[1]
References
- ^ 98-year-old Vladislovas Telksnys, the only living survivor of Stutthof concentration camp: "I went through hell". 15 min, 5 May 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
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