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On 28 March the Latvian audience will have a chance to see in Latvia one of the Lithuanian productions of the recent years – "THE EXCURSIONIST" (Director: Audrius Juzėnas). About the film: After the 2-nd World War Europe was divided in two parts and the state of Lithuania found itself on the eastern side of the iron curtain. The Stalin regime quickly broke the traditional way of life, it cruelly suppressed any resistance. Hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians were deported to concentration camps in the North and East. The film is based on an inspiring true story taken from a dark period in the Baltic nations’ history. The main hero of the film - a 10 year old girl Marija who escapes from the exile train and posing as a Russian, keeping her true identity secret in the face of suspicion and cruelty made her 6000 km way back home to Lithuania. Earlier at the press conference, organized in the cooperation with the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia and the Latvian Film Distributor SIA „Forum Cinemas“, for launching the screening of this film in Latvia, the Lithuanian Ambassador to Latvia Ričardas Degutis has noted that the first Lithuanian feature film about the exile to Siberia reminds us the injustice and crimes that suffered all the three Baltic States. The Latvian audience will have the chance to see this film the week when Latvia commemorates the day of the victims of the communist genocide.  The content of the movie is particularly relevant to these days, when not far from the Baltic States the injustice, occupation and exile repeats again, - said the Lithuanian Ambassador during the press conference.

More information on the screening of this film in Latvia could be found in   http://www.forumcinemas.lv/eng/Event/301266/