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Cast
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Nikolaj Antonov | ... |
Lev
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Josif Baliukevic | ... |
David
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Valentinas Kaplunas | ... |
Cellist
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Jelena Kirejeva | ... |
Natasha
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Marija Korenkaite | ... |
Gitel
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Milana Kulikauskaite | ... |
Rahil
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Liubomiras Laucevicius | ... |
Dr. Gurevitch
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Leonidas Melnikas | ... |
Pianist
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Aleksandra Metalnikova | ... |
Sarah
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Egle Minciunaite | ... |
Pianist
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Ivona Parafianowicz | ... |
Sonja
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Agna Petkeviciute | ... |
Chayke
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Migle Petkeviciute | ... |
Zelda
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Agata Seibak | ... |
Gitel (Aged 5)
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Donatas Simukauskas | ... |
Rabbi Ozerowski
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Ramune Skardziunaite | ... |
Hannah
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Aleksandr Spilevoj | ... |
Resident
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Gediminas Storpirstis | ... |
Chaim
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Karina Stungyte | ... |
Nurse
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Borisas Traubas | ... |
Violinist
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Sakalas Uzdavinys | ... |
Dr. Kleynbarg
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Perlis Vaisieta | ... |
Male Doctor
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Liudvikas Vilimas | ... |
Restaurant Man
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Sonata Visockaite | ... |
Sauna assistant
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Arturas Zabas | ... |
Student
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Directed by
Robert Mullan |
Written by
Robert Mullan | ... | (writer) |
Produced by
Charlotte Arden | ... | producer |
Peter Gerard Dunphy | ... | executive producer |
Arturas Dvinelis | ... | producer |
Juliana Miliut | ... | Producer of Marketing & Distribution |
Cinematography by
Tomas Vilys | ... | director of photography |
Editing by
Laurie Yule |
Editorial Department
James Clarke | ... | head of di |
Scott Goulding | ... | colourist |
Lisa Jordan | ... | facility director: Lipsync Post |
Simonas Slizys | ... | trailer editor |
Casting By
Donatas Simukauskas |
Production Design by
Lina Geciene |
Art Direction by
Ainis Jankauskas |
Costume Design by
Agne Rimkute |
Makeup Department
Jurgita Globyte | ... | makeup artist |
Egle Mikalauskaite | ... | makeup designer |
Bozena Moisejenko | ... | makeup artist |
Production Management
Paul Dray | ... | post-production manager |
Arturas Dvinelis | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Sabina Katkeviciute | ... | second assistant director |
Rasa Rimkute | ... | first assistant director |
Art Department
Rytis Daraskevicius | ... | property master |
Grete Ringaile Kiliulyte-Vaitmone | ... | props (as Grete Kiliulyte) |
Marius Smailys | ... | set dresser |
Aurimas Spranginas | ... | carpenter |
Jurij Terioskin | ... | assistant property master |
Andrius Zubkaitis | ... | set dresser |
Sound Department
Giedrius Aleknavicius | ... | sound mixer |
Sigitas Motoras | ... | boom operator |
Special Effects by
Artiom Grigorian | ... | special effects |
Dimitrij Sinelscikov | ... | special effects |
Visual Effects by
Stephen Elson | ... | visual effects producer |
Stunts
Tomas Ereminas | ... | stunt coordinator |
Camera and Electrical Department
Darius Brukstaitis | ... | best boy |
Mindaugas Galkus | ... | digital imaging technician |
Jaroslav Gedroic | ... | electrician |
Vidmantas Kralikauskas | ... | electrician |
Vitalij Kutko | ... | gaffer |
Oleg Polozkov | ... | electrician |
Martynas Siauciunas | ... | clapper loader |
Audrius Zelenius | ... | focus puller |
Casting Department
Edgaras Cerniauskas | ... | casting assistant |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Edita Budryte | ... | set costumer |
Ausra Cepliauskaite | ... | costumer |
Juzefa Salatinskaja | ... | costumer |
Ruta Tamuleviciene | ... | wardrobe assistant |
Rasa Taujanskiene | ... | assistant costume designer |
Monika Vebraite | ... | set costumer (as Monika Verbaite) |
Location Management
Romanas Parubec | ... | location assistant |
Jonas Spokas | ... | location manager |
Music Department
Borisas Traubas | ... | music coordinator |
Script and Continuity Department
Jelena Grisina | ... | script supervisor (as Jelena Grishina) |
Tracy Moreton | ... | script editor |
Transportation Department
Michail Purenok | ... | transportation |
Additional Crew
Philippe Louis Galliano | ... | sales agent |
Kristina Karvelyte | ... | production secretary |
Mantas Petrauskas | ... | production accountant |
Violeta Rimkute | ... | assistant accountant |
Thanks
Michael Elson | ... | special thanks |
Dovid Katz | ... | special thanks |
Norman Merry | ... | special thanks: Lipsync Post |
Production Companies
Distributors
- BayView Entertainment (2022) (World-wide)
Special Effects
- Arttek
- Baseblack
- Triplenode (DIT)
Other Companies
- Actors Agency (casting)
- Amber Catering (catering)
- Cineefects Studio (construction)
- Cineskope.lt (camera equipment provided by)
- Gutara Post Pro (sound equipment supplied by)
- Simon Wiesenthal Center, Israel (special thanks)
- Vision Express (equipment)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
5th September 1969, and Gitel Bargman is about to attend a party to celebrate her 33rd birthday - although for her it is hardly cause for celebration. She is racked with guilt for simply being alive. Attractive, intelligent and witty, Gitel is a successful violinist who lives in a Kuybyshev (USSR) apartment. To the outsider, she has everything. But Gitel hides a secret. She's a haunted woman: haunted not only by painful memories of the past, but also by the ghosts of her two sisters who died when she, by a mere quirk of fate, survived. And because she lives in the past, Gitel cannot embrace her future. To love, and to be loved in return, remains an impossible dream. October 13th, 1941, the Ninth Fort, Kovno, Lithuania. A horrified young Gitel watches helplessly as her parents and both sisters are murdered in the extermination camp at Kovno, Lithuania. She is standing alone, frozen with terror. Since that day Gitel has received 'visitations' from her two dead sisters, Zelde and Chayke. She discusses them with her psychiatrist who is disinterested and disbelieving, even when she tells him she can actually 'almost touch them.' The same thought returns over and over to Gitel: 'How can I live, when they died?' At a birthday party, thrown for her by her surviving brother Chaim, she meets Lev Rosenzweig. Lev also has a disturbing past - his wife's suicide and a son who refuses to forgive his father for his mother's death. Reluctantly and painfully, Lev and Gitel try to find love in each other. Lev, urged on by Chaim, persuades her to return to Lithuania for the first time since the Holocaust. In Kovno, Gitel visits the site of the murder. She breaks down. She lies on the ground. It rains. Lev lies down beside her, and Gitel allows him to console her. Back in the Kovno hotel the visitations continue. Gitel begins to question her sanity and wonders whether she is inventing these dead siblings, or whether they are in some sense 'real'? And she wonders whether she can learn to live without them. Back in Kuybyshev she realizes she's in love. In her apartment Gitel and Lev tenderly make love. As a gesture of her love, she decides to track down Lev's estranged son David and tries to persuade him to see his father. David refuses. Suddenly tragedy strikes when Lev suffers a heart attack. As Gitel nurses him back to life she finds she has less time for her dead visitors. Gitel and Lev marry. At the reception, Lev's estranged son and a granddaughter Lev didn't even know existed arrive - they tearfully embrace. At the end of the reception, and unbeknown to Lev, they are joined by Gitel's deceased siblings. She understands that this will be their last visit. Written by Robert Mullan |
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