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A Small Confession

1971 · 77 min

A quiet, somber coming-of-age portrait that drifts through a young man's disillusionment with a heavy, melancholic patience.

Directed by
Algirdas Araminas
Genres
Drama
Starring
Andrius Karka, Vytautas Kernagis, Ülle Koni
Overview
Arūnas, an 18 year old high-school graduate from the port town, is going through a crisis. He is stressed by the school routine. At home, his father bores Arūnas with his constant recollections about fighting in an antifascist guerrilla squad, while his mother unexpectedly turns back to her old dream of becoming an artist and decides to leave the house, taking her younger son Saulius with her. His father ends up in hospital, because of a grenade fragment lodged in his spine since the war. Arūnas is surrounded by the betrayal of friends.

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Directed by
Algirdas Araminas
Genres
Drama
Starring
Andrius Karka, Vytautas Kernagis, Ülle Koni
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • family
  • betrayal
  • isolation
  • identity
Places
  • small town
  • home
  • hospital
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

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Andrius Karka, Vytautas Kernagis, Ülle Koni, Rūta Staliliūnaitė, Gediminas Karka, Vytautas Kaminskas, Benas Puskunigis, Monika Mironaitė
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