ADOMAS NORI BŪTI ŽMOGUMI

ADAM WANTS TO BE A MAN

Directed byVytautas Žalakevičius
Years1959
Duration87
Original versionLithuanian
SubtitlesEnglish, French, Polish
Available formatsDCP
GenreDrama

Creative team

Written by Vytautas Sirijos Gira, Vytautas Žalakevičius
Cinematography by Algimantas Mockus
Music by Eduardas Balsys

Cast

Vytautas Puodžiukaitis, Audronė Bajerčiūtė, Juozas Miltinis, Stasys Petronaitis, Valerijonas Derkintis, Vaclovas Blėdis, Donatas Banionis

About the film

In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds, lives Adam, a naive young man with no job and a lot of dreams. His closest friend is the Captain, an old sea wolf with many tales to tell about Singapore, Hawaii and other equally exotic and sunny places. Inspired by his stories, Adam manages to get a job in an emigration bureau and starts saving for his ticket to leave abroad.

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