Movies: Robertas Verba

Four different stories about young kids' destinies in different time periods in Lithuania....

A documentary film about two Lithuanian pilots, who flew over the Atlantic in 1933 - Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas....

A film about the classics of Lithuanian literature. The director was interested not only in her creative path but also in her fate. He tried to make the film, made entirely of static material, breathe alive without appearing stagnant. In addition, in...

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more...

Robertas Verba’s first documentary film, described by film critic Živile Pipinyte as “the ‘ice-breaker’ which broke through the ice of Soviet ideology to form the peculiar stylistics of Lithuanian documentary film.” The hero of this film is the brigh...

Though created to commemorate the centenary of Lenin, the documentary is far from celebrating Soviet ideology. In the film people who are one hundred years old talk about their lives. Their remembrances illuminate traditions and past of Lithuania....

In 1977, Robertas Verba followed Jonas Mekas in Lithuania, his second trip there after he left the country in 1944....

A film about a great folk talent, Vincas Svirskis (1835-1916), a carpenter who traveled from village to village. His shelter, his family, his property was replaced by oak sculptures, crosses, his image left, people forgot his tomb, but his works rema...

The film tells about the musicians of the Zapyškis town brass band....

Moving people from homesteads to settlements. Families are filmed and interviewed in their old backyards just before they move out....

A short film capturing the journey of various musicians and singers to the Lithuanian Song Festival....

As people approached the 100th anniversary of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, all people, though somewhat related, became important. The film's heroines are the artist's sisters Jadvyga and Viktorija Čiurlionytė. The verbs were usually concerned w...

Folk masters carve sculptures and recount memories in memory of the burned Ablinga villagers....