Motherland Trailer Shows a Parent and Child in Post-Soviet Lithuania
The trailer reveals how the film uses a specific historical moment-post-Soviet Lithuania-to frame a personal story about displacement and the difficulty of reclaiming what was lost.
Reporting from 1 sources: Eiga Natalie.
The trailer for the film "MOTHERLAND," set in Lithuania in 1992 after the Soviet collapse, has been released. The story follows American-born Kovas and his mother Victoria as they travel to her homeland to reclaim lost family land, only to find a Russian family living there. The film stars Martas Metrelevskis and Severija Janušauskaitė, directed by Tomas Vengris, and opens July 4 at Theater Image Forum in Tokyo and other venues.
The trailer for "MOTHERLAND" is now online. The film is set in Lithuania in the summer of 1992, just after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Kovas, an American-born boy, travels there with his mother Victoria. She was separated from her family during the Soviet occupation and lost her home and land. Now she wants to reclaim that land and start a new life with her son. But a Russian family already lives in the house. The trailer shows how that reality distorts their fresh start. Martas Metrelevskis plays Kovas. Severija Janušauskaitė plays Victoria. Darius Gumauskas and Barbora Bareikytė also appear. Tomas Vengris directed. The film opens July 4 at Theater Image Forum in Tokyo and will roll out nationwide after that.
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- Eiga Natalie リトアニア舞台の「MOTHERLAND」予告解禁、親子の揺れ動く日々を映し出す