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Bergen

Two men meet in a run-down Vilnius restaurant – an old man and a young thug named Vytas. After a couple of drinks, the old man suggests that Vytas, who is emigrating to Bergen the following day, can save the restaurant’s singer from hardship if he were to take her away with him.

Information

Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Duration
26'
Production country
Lithuania
Dialogues
Lithuanian

Team

Producer
Skaistė Matijošiūtė, Akvilė Petrauskaitė
Script
Andrius Blaževičius
Cinematography
Audrius Budrys
Editing
Mindaugas Sruogius, Andrius Blaževičius
Sound designer
Andrius Paulavičius
Composer
Domas Strupinskas, Vainius Sodeika
Cast
Vidas Petkevičius, Marius Repšys, Ilona Kvietkutė, Milda Stakėnaitė
Production company
Just a moment

Contacts

Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė

Director's biography

Andrius Blaževičius

Andrius Blaževičius was born on June 26th, 1985 in Vilnius. After finishing St. Christophe’s high school, he started culture and anthropology studies at Vilnius University. After a year he entered Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy for film directing studies. During his studies Blaževičius directed six short films, one of them is documentary. In 2011 he graduated from Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy with a master’s degree in TV and film directing. At the moment Blaževičius works as a freelance director. Since 2010 he has been a program director for Vilnius International Short Film Festival.

Filmography

While Andrius Blaževičius Was Young and Inexperienced (2006, short fiction)
The Death of McCaulay Culkin (2007, short fiction)
Vytautas (2008, short fiction)
Bergen (2009, short short fiction)
Ten Reasons (2011, short fiction)
A Story of a Deportee Exiled by her Own Father (2011, short documentary)
The Saint (2016, feature fiction)
Paralysis / Paralyžius (2020, feature fiction)