3 Journeys To Lithuania ( Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania / Going Home / Journey to Lithuania / Journey to Paris )

3 Journeys To Lithuania (DVD) (*)

$33.99

Original Title: Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania / Going Home / Journey to Lithuania / Journey to Paris
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
244 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1961-1972 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Lithuania ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jonas Mekas
Pola Chapelle
Adolfas Mekas
Anne Maregiano

Written By:
Jonas Mekas

Actors:
Jonas Mekas ..... Self
Adolfas Mekas ..... Self
Pola Chapelle ..... Self
Ken Jacobs ..... Self
Peter Kubelka ..... Self
Hollis Melton ..... Self
Annette Michelson ..... Self
Hermann Nitsch ..... Self
Daniel Rogosin ..... Self

Synopsis:

3 films by Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas and Pola Chapelle and a bonus film by Anne Maregiano. Adolfas and Jonas Mekas arrived in New York in 1949, leaving their native land, Lithuania, behind, caught between Nazi and Soviet occupation. Little by little the camera became their means of expression and cinema invaded their lives. 27 years passed before they could finally return to Lithuania. This is the odyssey the three films intertwiningly recall: Adolfas and Jonas Mekas and Pola Chapelle (Adolfas'?wife) are at once actor and filmer. The Mekas brothers rediscover their country and family with their changes, while Pola Chapelle is the external gaze embracing this reunion. Neither Lithuanian nor New Yorkers, where is their home now? As Jonas likes to say 'My Country is Cinema.' 'You can't go home again - I thought the words of Thomas Wolfe, but didn't say them. The brothers were uneasy, but determined. We would make films of their return after so many years to the land of their birth. I would do sound with the little Uher, and in between, I would shoot my home movie on 8mm. One morning the five Mekas brothers stood in a line and allowed the family to measure their height. As Mama Mekas looked on, she spoke very solemnly. Adolfas translated for me. She said, 'My husband and I planted 5 birch trees. Two were straight and beautiful (Paul and Peter), one grew crooked (Costas with a limp) and two fell down.'?The two that fell were Jonas and Adolfas. She lost them. All the time that we were with her, she never showed emotion. Only when she accompanied us to the airport in Vilnius, did I see tears in her eyes as Jonas and Adolfas embraced her. She loved them, and she would lose them twice.' -Pola Chapelle

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 01 May, 2020.