One-Day Chronicle
Focus on Baltic Film (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) 2003 / Vienos dienos kronika / Lithuania 1963
Old Judge Rimša is distressed by the murder of his good friend Prof. Muratovas. He can’t understand why the only witness to the tragedy – the professor’s student – did nothing to prevent it from happening. Though the young man isn’t under suspicion, Rimša blames him for moral failure – for demonstrating what he considers punishable indifference.
Synopsis
An old idealistic Communist judge named Rimša is in shock. Someone has killed his good friend Prof. Muratovas. The only witness to the crime is one of the professor’s students. Although the murder goes unsolved, the student isn’t under suspicion. But Rimša doesn’t understand why the young man didn’t at least try to avert danger, and for this he blames him.... Time goes by and the two men meet once again on a plane bound for Leningrad, and the past event is seem in a new light.... According to the filmmaker, the film concerns a moral failure: seemingly innocent indifference.
About the film
83 min / Black & white, 35 mm
Director Vytautas Žalakevičius
/ Screenplay Vytautas Žalakevičius
/ Dir. of Photography Algirdas Raminas
/ Music Edvar Grieg, Eduardas Balsys
/ Editor Izabele Pinaityté
/ Production Lithuanian Film Studio
/ Cast Donatas Banionis, Bronius Babkauskas, Algimantas Masiulis, Elvyra Žebertavičiute
/ Contact Lithuanian Film Studio
About the director
Vytautas Žalakevičius (1930-1996) graduated from Moscow’s VGIK film school (1956) and then worked in Vilnius and Moscow, where he also lectured for the Higher Courses for Film Directors. After debuting with One-Day Chronicle (Vienos dienos kronika, 1964), he earned his reputation with the action film Nobody Wanted to Die (Niekas nenoréjo mirti, 1965). While in Moscow he shot the grandiose political film That Sweet Word “Freedom” (Tas saldus žodis-laisvé, 1972), The Centaurs (Kentaurai, 1978) and the psychological drama The Story of a Stranger (Nepažistamo žmogunas pasakojimas, 1980) based on a Chekhov story. In Lithuania he shot the confessional film I’m Sorry (Atsiprašau, 1982, ) and the harsh war drama The Weekend in Hades (Savaitgalis pragare, 1988). He finished his career with an excellent adaptation of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s story "The Flood": The Beast, Rising Out of the Sea (Žvéris, kylantis iš juros, 1992).
Contacts
Lithuanian Film Studio
Nemenčinés pl. 4, LT - 10102, Vilnius
Lithuania
Phone: +370 52 764 218
Fax: +370 52 764 254
E-mail: info@kino.lt
Guests
Gražina Arlickaité
Festival Organizer
Ausra Duobiene
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