Directed by Algimantas Puipa • 1983 • USSR/Lithuania

The windswept Baltic coast of Lithuania at the turn of the century. A lonely widow joins a family of three men in their homestead, half-buried by the shifting sand dunes around them. Over the years, the family suffers loss, poverty, and injustice, forcing our central quartet to reimagine their relationships anew. Algimantas Puipa’s period melodrama is one of the finest Lithuanian films of the Soviet era, full of painterly compositions, beautiful landscape photography, and finely tuned performances.

A WOMAN AND HER FOUR MEN • MOTERIS IR KETURI JOS VYRAI
Written and directed by Algimantas Puipa
From the story Tale of the Dunes by Holger Drachmann
Cinematography by Jonas Tomaševičius
Music by Juozas Širvinskas
Starring: Jūratė Onaitytė, Antanas Šurna, Vidas Petkevičius

In Lithuanian and German with English subtitles