The Baltic Way

synopsis

Two million people held hands on August 23, 1989, forming a nearly 700-kilometer-long human chain that spooled out across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The peaceful protest against the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, signed 50 years earlier, grew into a monumental gesture of expression of moral strength by the occupied Baltic nations.

biography

The film is the result of cooperation between two important Lithuanian filmmakers: Arünas Matelis (1961) and Audrius Stonys (1966). Matelis’ observations and Stonys’ meditative rhythm stressed the social significance of the event.

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