THE WRITER
synopsis
After 14 years of marriage, divorced IT engineer Dima goes to New York for a job interview and meets emigrated Lithuanian writer Kostas. They were friends during their mandatory stint in the Soviet army in faraway Stavropol. But they haven’t talked in 30 years since Kostas decided to pursue the American dream. Now Dima is eager to share his opinions on Kostas’s historical book “1990”. A spontaneous decision to make vegan borscht together strikes up a conversation with one rule – no sarcasm allowed!
international title: | The Writer |
original title: | Rašytojas |
country: | Lithuania, Germany, United States |
year: | 2023 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Romas Zabarauskas |
film run: | 86' |
screenplay: | Romas Zabarauskas, Marc David Jacobs, Anastasia Sosunova, Artūras Tereškinas |
cast: | Bruce Ross, Jamie Day |
cinematography by: | Narvydas Naujalis |
film editing: | Ignė Narbutaitė |
art director: | Giedre Valeisaite |
costumes designer: | Lukas Juodis |
music: | Ieva Marija Baranauskaite |
producer: | Glenn Elliott, Romas Zabarauskas, Aidan Tumas |
production: | Naratyvas, Artysta Management GmbH, Dead Heat Pictures (US) |