Hai cercato: The Old Man and The Land

The Old Man and The Land / 2023

In his outstanding debut, Nicholas Parish creates a cinematic experience that is not comparable to our usual cinema visits. We witness a tense family conflict between a father and his two adult children. While we see the father’s regular farm life, we only hear his daughter’s and son’s phone calls and conversations.

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The Old Man and the Land / 1965

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.