Algimantas Zigmantavičius

The Grand Duke of Lithuania Skirgaila locks up the Duchess of Lida Ona Duonute in his castle and forces her to marry him.

Summer 1940, Lithuania is already occupied by the Soviets. In the interrogation underground, interrogator Pijus Karpavičius is nervously smoking, while in another room two arrested people meet - priest Antanas and Kazys, the leader of the still-organising anti-Soviet underground.

Petras Kurmelis is a hardworking but tight-fisted peasant, he marries for convenience and wants the bride to bring a good dowry to the house. But marriage does not bring him happiness.

Teleplay based on Justino Marcinkeviciaus' play.

The peasant Juras Tarutis takes part in the struggle for independent Lithuania and in the election campaign for the Sejm, painfully experiencing the fascist coup in 1926. At first, he firmly believes in land reform and only after difficult trials, he become disillusioned with the reform and with the bourgeois system itself.

Vito-Vilūnas' activities in Moscow and interwar Lithuania, the fight against the Nazis and his death in 1942.

The film is based on the work of the Swedish writer August Strindberg.

Based on Carlo Goldoni's play.