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Three Days (1991)
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Three Days (1991)
Original name: Trys dienos
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Lithuania
Duration: 75 min.
Story: In Kaliningrad two Lithuanian boys meet two Russian girls. They have difficulties in finding places where they can sleep together. But this is the only problem they do solve. All four justly feel miserable because their lives are meaningless (the recurrent dull and poorly kept house façads could well be taken as a comparative symbol). In addition, everyone is so absorbed by his or her own distress and hardly capable of bothering about the anguish of the others. The three days end with a pervasive lack of contact. Written by Max Scharnberg, Stockholm,
Style: slow cinema, bleak, contemplative, artsy, aesthetic, avant garde
Plot: depression, underground, minimalism, conflict, alienation, trauma, post soviet, sex, teenager, sea, female nudity, meaning of life, beach, isolation, smoking, children in wartime, female full frontal nudity
Time: year 1992
Place: ussr, soviet union
Keyword: avant-garde

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The Corridor (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Lithuania, France, Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
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Duration: 120 min.
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