[REL] Riesutu duona (1980) [Lithuania]

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[REL] Riesutu duona (1980) [Lithuania]

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AKA: Orekhovyy khleb (1980)

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This playful reminiscence of childhood, adolescence, and first love in a small provicial town, is one of the most lyrical films in the Lithuanian cinema. The complexity of human relations is portrayed in a tragicomical manner, and the arising paradoxical situations are enhanced by the masterful music of Viaceslavas Ganelinas. Lithuania, 1977, directed by Arunas Zebriunas. Color, 68 minutes, Lithuanian dialogue.
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NUT BREAD (‘Riesutu duona’)

Film directed by Arunas Zebriunas

Scenario by Saulius Saltenis

Lituvos kino studija (Lithuanian film studio), 1977.

Film is made in Soviet period of occupied Lithuania.

This is just a plot, not an interpretation. You will have to interpret the movie yourselves.

Everything takes place in a small town in Lithuania after the World War Two.

Two main characters are ANDRIUS SATAS and LIUKA KAMINSKAITE.

This was long ago… in a very small town in Lithuania. The main character Andrius Satas comments some episodes himself.

Satas’ family sometimes has fights with the neighboring family of Kaminskas. Kaminskas family makes a kid then Satas family makes a kid. Thus Liuka Kaminskaite and Andrius Satas are born. Father Satas is a musician and father Kaminskas is a shoemaker.

Liuka’s mother leaves Kaminskas for a pilot.

Kaminskas comes to Satas family and purchases their cow. The cow dies for unknown reasons. From then on the symbol of a cow becomes very important in relations between the two families.

KIDS. Young Andrius is sick (appendicitis). He is worrying to return a cow for Kaminskas family. Kaminskas barn is on fire. Andrius likes the bread that Liuka gives him. It has a nutty smell.

A picnic takes place in the town. A concert. Andrius’ father (musician) plays some music. Kaminskas is making shoes at the time and is laughing at the concert. Kids are playing and disturb the concert as well. Andrius promises Liuka to purchase a new cow. The concert is just a mess. Andrius tells his grandfather he wants to purchase a cow, but grandfather does not want him to. Andrius asks for the money.

From then Andrius tries to get money for a cow in different ways. Mother says, that when he grows up, he buys a cow if he wants.

Andrius’ grandfather is dieing. He says he would leave all his money to Andrius and Andrius would purchase 5 cows. Andrius imagines that his grandfather is taken somewhere by plain when he passes away. All the money that grandfather left is old from before the war and has no value.

TEENAGERS. Spring. Andrius and Liuka are big by now, a teenager. He speaks of nutty taste of the bread.

Liuka cuts her hair. She looses her shoe in a pool. Andrius helps her to get it back from the other students. But she hits him. Principal of the school asks Andrius to bring his father to the school. Liuka wants to eat her shoe. Then she asks Andrius to kiss her.

Andrius works with the potatoes, tries hard, but fails to carry 3 potato sacks at once.

Dialog with Liuka about Andrius being ridiculous or not.


Satas father and mother. Andrius is sad. He was being asked by his father how did he earn his money.

Andrius works at digging ditches, tries again to earn money. Andrius learns about his father having an affair with the hairdresser of the town Irena Meskute. He goes to the town and finds out it is true: the father and the hairdresser are singing ‘sweet’ in her apartment.

Andrius mother wants to leave. Andrius asks her not to. She tells the story about how she met Andrius farther long time ago (they went to a movie). Andrius is unhappy, makes noise, wakes up his father and informs him that mother has left him.

A cow. Andrius buys a cow at a marked, he uses his own earnings to buy it. He purchases a cow instead of motorcycle or something else more appropriate to his interests. The cow is for Liuka. The seller is ashamed for taking too much, he returns some money to Andrius and gives as a present a gramophone.

He brings the cow to Liuka. She likes it, but not her father Kaminskas. Kaminskas is very angry. He brings the cow to the town, goes to the school to the principal. He thinks that the cow is stolen. Liuka is sad and frightened and she says that maybe she does not really need that cow. Then Andrius becomes angry and he lies to the principal that he had stolen the cow.

Liuka’s father beats her. She leaves her home and comes to Andrius. Andrius is angered, but lets her in. He lives alone by then, separately from his father, which was abandoned by his wife. In a rainy day they go to hide a cow somewhere, and the principal observes that.

Episode in a meadow, near the lake. Liuka and Andrius are playing and are happy with their cow. Gramophone is on.

Liuka comes to Andrius home, where he lives alone. They are wet after the lake, it is cold. He closes all the windows from outside. They are trying to sleep in one bed but they are nervous. Andrius promises never to leave Liuka.

Liuka and Andrius both are in bed. He is afraid to show a red stain on this body (result of appendicitis), but she likes it. Then Liuka’s father comes in and finds them together. He is unexpectedly calm and informs Liuka that he made her new shoes.

Then (after many years) Liuka’s mother returns. Her pilot drops her from the aeroplane. After a hard fight Kaminskas family is together again.

Andrius’ father goes for a visit to Andrius mother. She asks what he will buy in the shop where she works. Andrius’ father buys some glass but what he really needs is her love again.

Both Kaminskas and Satas families are together again.

Andrius’ parents take the cow (which was purchases by Andrius) to Kaminskas family. Kaminskas is angry again, he thinks that Satas family wants to humiliate him. Kaminskas takes a gun and starts shooting. He also kills the cow in anger (like Grainis cut his linden tree in the story of V. Kreve).

Kaminskas is upset and tries to die. All the family mourns the supposed future death of father Kaminskas. But that is just a weak moment in Kaminskas life.

Andrius is talking to Liuka. Liuka’s brother is digging a hole for the late cow. Andrius says that he cares about Liuka so much, and she says the same…

Bet then Kaminskas family leaves. Kaminskas made a pair of shoes of the skin of the shot cow to father Satas. Liuka leaves with her family too.

Andrius stays alone. After many years Andrius does not know anything about Liuka. He just feels the nutty smell of bread.
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Re: [REL] Orekhovyy khleb (1978) [Lithuania]

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Interesting story, but nothing for us gl's I'm afraid :?
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NUT BREAD is a very apt title. The guy who wrote the plot (great description, btw :thumbup1: ) has to be nuts. :lol:
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emuler wrote:NUT BREAD is a very apt title. The guy who wrote the plot (great description, btw :thumbup1: ) has to be nuts. :lol:
seems to be obsessed with cows :mrgreen:
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