Living Heroes

Nov 9, 1960

1h 20m

★ 4.6

Overview

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

Genres

Drama

Family

War

Production Companies

Lithuanian Film Studio

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Cast

Alius (novel «Living heroes»)

Leonidas Milašauskas

Vikis (novel «Living heroes»)

Valentinas Taujanskas

Ryauba - kranininkas (novel «Living heroes»)

Antanas Gabrėnas

skulptorius (novel «Living heroes»)

Steponas Kosmauskas

pastininkas (novel «Living heroes»)

Vladas Jurkūnas

Juozukas (novel «We don't need»)

Nerijus Narkis

Juozukas tevas (novel «We don't need»)

Eduardas Čepulis

Juozukas mama (novel «We don't need»)

Regina Zdanavičiūtė

burzuazinis (novel «We don't need»)

Kazimieras Vitkus

mokytojas (novel «We don't need»)

Nijolė Narijauskaitė

Laima (novel «The last shot»)

Zivile Jakelaityte

banditas (novel «The last shot»)

Bronius Babkauskas

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