Balys Bratkauskas
Directing
Biography
No biography available for Balys Bratkauskas.
Born: December 6, 1923
Known For
A Restless Autumn Day
The film tells about the everyday life of the Vilnius utility company. The main conflict in the film occurs between director Valaitis and chief engineer Butkus, who opposes the director’s working methods.
Shattered Sky
A son returns to his parents in Lithuania after years of traveling over all USSR and brings with him his Ukrainian wife.
The Bridge
A small Lithuanian town. The young engineer Algirdas Araminas completed the construction of the new bridge. On the day the opening was supposed to take place, the bridge was destroyed by German bombs. The war has begun. Algirdas is depressed, he gets down and starts drinking. However, when the Germans began to rebuild the bridge, he agrees to work.
Living Heroes
Four different stories about young kids' destinies in different time periods in Lithuania.
That Damned Humility
The 19th century in the serf village of Lithuania. Young Severija and violinist Mykoliukas like each other, but their love is challenged by Geišė, a much older, though still lively and imperious, tycoon.
Little Sins
Based on the novel of the same name by Raimondas Kašauskas, about a strange man who is restless, who wants to live differently from everyone else, to play life.
Ignotas Comes Back
Based on the novel by the famous Lithuanian writer A. Gudaitis-Guzevičius “The Truth of Blacksmith Ignotas” about the revolutionary events of 1918-1919. in Lithuania, about the struggle of workers for Soviet power, for the freedom of their homeland.
Lost Farmland
The film covers the events in Lithuania in 1940-1945 and tells about the life of the Lithuanian intelligentsia. The characters are placed in crisis situations, when the problem of choosing a path, the problem of social and historical self-determination of the fate of the people and each person inevitably arises.
Filmography
as Stankus
as gestapo karininkas
as Valaitis
as Rapolas Geišė
as burio vadas (novel «Nightingale»)
as Algirdas Arminas
as Владас