28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
The Baltic Way
director: Arūnas Matelis, Audrius Stonys
original title: Baltijos kelias
country: Lithuania
year: 1990
running time: 10 min.
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.
more about film
director: | Arūnas Matelis, Audrius Stonys |
producer: | Arūnas Matelis, Audrius Stonys |