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Code of Tumas

2018 · 86 min

A quiet, letter-driven historical portrait that asks you to sit with a subjective, emotional recollection of a turbulent past.

Directed by: Eimantas Belickas
Genres: History, Documentary
Starring: Ramūnas Cicėnas, Rolandas Kazlas, Vytautas Nakutis

Overview: “Code of Tumas ” is an effort to show the well-known events and processes of history through the eyes of a direct person with a subjective and emotional look. Letters, publicism, all creations of Juozas Tumas Vaižgantas, also memories of his contemporaries make this reconstruction possible.

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Directed by: Eimantas Belickas
Genres: History, Documentary
Starring: Ramūnas Cicėnas, Rolandas Kazlas, Vytautas Nakutis

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
identity
faith
politics
art
Places: countryside
small town
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	9
Romance	1
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: history, documentary
Directed by: Eimantas Belickas
Written by: Liudvika Pociūnienė
Starring: Ramūnas Cicėnas, Rolandas Kazlas, Vytautas Nakutis, Alfas Pakėnas, Vytautas Ališauskas, Egidijus Aleksandravičius, Vaida Rimkutė, Sigita Švitrienė
Runtime: 86 min
Country: Lithuania
Languages: Lithuanian

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