Baltic cinema classics

From this Thursday, 28 November, to 28 February 2025, stream three classic gems on KLASSIKI.ONLINE, the only VOD platform dedicated exclusively to cinema from the Baltic states, Eastern European countries, Caucasus, and Central Asia.

From Lithuania:

The Beauty (Lithuanian: Gražuolė) is a 1969 Lithuanian film directed by Arūnas Žebriūnas. Neighbourhood children play a game: one of the kids dances in the centre of the circle while the others shower him or her with compliments. A little girl, Inga, who lives with her single mother, is friendly and honest and usually collects a lot of compliments and is therefore called  a beauty. Evrything changes when a new boy moves into the neighbourhood. Being rude, he does not fit in and soon earns himself the nickname Mute. He does not like Inga`s freckles  and calls her ugly. Mute`s words hurt Inga deeply and she sets out to look for beauty.

From Latvia:

Four White Shirts (Latvian: Četri balti krekli) or Breathe Deeply (Elpojiet dziļi) is a 1967 romantic drama film directed by Rolands Kalniņš. The film was prevented from being screened by Soviet censors for 20 years following its release. In 2018, Four White Shirts was featured in the 2018 Cannes Classics program. The film centers around a telephone repairman named Cēzars Kalniņš, who writes music for his friend's rock band “Optimisti” (The Optimists). Culture worker Anita Sondore reports Kalniņš’ lyrics to the authorities due to their criticism of prevalent social values, leading to conflicts between Kalniņš, his bandmates, and the Soviet authorities

From Estonia:

Madness (Estonian: Hullumeelsus) is a 1968 Estonian drama film directed by Kaljo Kiisk. The action takes place in a nameless country occupied by the German army at the time of World War II. In a small village there's an asylum. A squad of German soldiers arrives to take the insane people to a "walk in the forest". Just before they are ready to go to forest to kill the insane people, a Gestapo officer arrives and from his conversation with the doctor we can find out that there's an enemy agent hiding himself in the asylum. Officer Windisch must find the agent from 583 people and on his searches he is slowly starting to feel himself crazy too.

Stream from 28 November on KLASSIKI.ONLINE

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