THE EXCURSIONIST
synopsis
After World War II, Europe was divided in two parts and the state of Lithuania found itself on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain. In the 1950s, under the yoke of Stalinism, hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians were deported to gulags in the Soviet Union. Marija, an orphaned eleven-year-old girl, escapes from a transport train and sets out on a 6,000-mile trek back home, posing as a Russian and keeping her true identity secret in the face of suspicion and cruelty.
international title: | The Excursionist |
original title: | Ekskursante |
country: | Lithuania |
year: | 2013 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Audrius Juzėnas |
film run: | 110' |
release date: | LT 27/09/2013, LV 28/03/2014 |
screenplay: | Pranas Morkus |
cast: | Sergey Garmash, Airida Gintautaite, Dmitriy Gotsdiner, Alyona Ivchenko, Anastasija Marcenkaite, Darius Meskauskas, Egle Mikulionyte, Kseniya Rappoport |
cinematography by: | Jurij Grigorovic |
music: | Gintautas Venislovas |
producer: | Algirdas Semeskevicius |
production: | Cinemark |