The Lithuanian Film Center has extended cooperation with French distribution company “ED Distribution” for the distribution of the film in all French-speaking territories in Europe. In 2018, company successfully presented Žebriūnas’ film “The Beauty” (lit. Gražuolė, 1969) and released French subtitled DVD.
One of the most important works of Žebriūnas tells story about Vika, a dreamy girl on vacation who loves the sea, mountains and echoes, and does not want to fit in with local kids, and Romas, a boy also on vacation, who does want to fit in, but cannot. The boy becomes her confidant and their friendship blossoms, but then she is harassed by bullies and the boy doesn’t muster up courage to stand to her, which ruins their relationship forever.
The story earned Special Prize “Majority’s Silver Sail” at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1965 and the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Youth Film Festival in the same year.
Film was restored in 2019 by the Latvian company “Locomotive Classics”, audio restoration was done by composer Sigitas Mickis. “The Girl and the Echo” has been shown across Lithuania as well as in La Rochelle and Gindou film festivals this summer.
Currently, the film, together with four other works of Lithuanian film classics, are available in the Locarno’s digital film platform “Heritage Online” and open for worldwide distribution.
The Lithuanian Film Centre works consistently to digitize and restore the heritage of Lithuanian classical cinema for preservation and public access, providing distribution of these films nationally and abroad.
REPERTOIRE
|
FROM |
CITY |
CINEMA |
|
2nd September |
Paris |
Espace St Michel |
|
Bordeaux |
Utopia | |
|
Montreuil |
Le Méliès | |
|
Antony |
Le Select | |
|
Boulogne |
Landowsky | |
|
Nantes |
Cinématographe | |
|
Montpellier |
Utopia | |
|
La Roche Sur Yon |
Concorde | |
|
Grenoble |
Le Méliès | |
|
Lyon |
Comoedia | |
|
Toulouse |
American Cospograph | |
|
Strasbourg |
Star | |
|
Nyons |
Arlequin | |
|
Marseille |
La Baleine | |
|
Metz |
Klub | |
|
Aix En Provence |
Mazarin | |
|
9th September |
Vaison |
Le Florian |
|
Dieppe |
Grand Forum | |
|
13th September |
Cadillac |
Le Lux |
|
16th September |
Nantes |
Le Concorde |
|
Argenteuil |
(Le Figuier Blanc) | |
|
23nd September |
Bagnolet |
Cin'hoche |
|
Massy |
Cinemassy | |
|
30th September |
Avignon |
Utopioa |
|
14th October |
Rosny |
Georges Simenon |
