Rasa Samuolytė
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 21, 1975
Place of Birth: Panevėžys, Lietuva
Known For
Southern Chronicles
Rimants is more interested in playing rugby, listening to music and dealing on the black market than studying for school, but when he falls in love with Monika, his faith in love and the future is tested.
Family Unit
Migle’s grandfather has been living in an apartment that is too big for him. Two sibling families decided to move him out. In order to please Migle, Eimantas comes to grandfather’s home to help family move all the furniture. But not everyone in the family is happy about his presence.
Parade
Miglė, who married when she was very young, has for 26 years been divorced from her ex-husband who one day calls her and asks for a favour. He has found that it would be a good time to get married again after the death of his mother. But there is a small problem: their divorce is valid only in the eyes of the law, because a Catholic marriage cannot be divorced. It can, however, be annulled. All that needs to be done is to complete an application and give the “Catholic court” a good reason. But she does not know in what kind of absurd situations she is about to find herself in.
Nova Lituania
During the interwar period, a Lithuanian geography professor tries to convince the government to establish a backup state overseas, in order to save their country from ruin. However, the idea is mostly mocked and opposed. Still, there is hope in the secret support from the elderly prime minister, who has become disillusioned with politics.
Whisper of Sin
A nearly-suicidal, young woman visits a psychotherapist. She is in love with a priest, and the diagnosis of her husband's mental illness leaves no hope. The psychotherapist, in her attempts to resolve the amassed difficulties, seemingly begins to duplicate the life stages and behavioral patterns of her patient. A script for this film is based on motifs from the best-seller, scandalous novel, Witch and Rain, by female author, Jurga Ivanauskaite. By choosing a priest as the main role for a love story, the author broke an existing societal taboo. Faith, Love and Hope form the trilogy by the authors of this screenplay. Love stands as the grandest of the three.
Together For Ever
The plot follows an ordinary woman whose family are becoming estranged. Her daughter is a compulsive liar, and her husband seeks escape by working as a stuntman in a B movie with a third-rate film company. The chances of him dying while filming are high, and everybody in the family knows it. Tormented by the thought that she is no longer needed and is unloved by her family, the woman will go to any extreme to prove the opposite, and to keep her family together for ever.
Life After Death
Is anything changing in life when in a film your characters death, mourning the loss of beloved one - parents, children is played? In Life After Death, this question is posed in different forms to three generations of actors.
Foto_Shoot
Monika meets Ginte while taking pictures at night in an abandoned building. After meeting, Monika and Ginte exchange photo negatives. They agree to take photos on the tapes again, and agree to meet and see how the photos turned out in the double exposure. When Monika takes a photo of Ginte's tape and highlights it, Monika begins to see overlapping portraits of herself and Ginte. The tension between Juste and Monika grows. Monika and Ginte meet to exchange photos. Monika tries to kiss Ginte, but Monika is rejected. After returning home, Monika is surprised to see that Juste has also left her.
The Nominees
After the National Performing Arts Awards, the bus of actors returns home: everyone was nominated, but no one won. The bus is filled with thank-you speeches, karaoke and champagne. As the actors are driving along, they suddenly see their colleagues' car on the side of the road.
The Courtyard
The first feature of Lithuanian Valdas Navasaitis is a drama which unravels the hopeless 1970s, when people were deprived of their roots and forced to sit and watch their lives slip from their fingers. In a decrepit house that once belonged to a bourgeois family, several families seek shelter. Senis, a 65-year-old alcoholic, lives on the ground floor with his wife and their 16-year-old daughter. Senis is a survivor of the Nazis as well as the communist camps. He drowns the pain of his memories in a nearby pub and in talking to a depressed young laborer, Lorenca. Later on, a young couple and a lonely eccentric who enjoys only his cat's company join the inhabitants. Children wile away the time with useless games or spying on adults. When Lorenca hangs himself at the ruins of a nearby factory, the lives are shaken up. During the dinner held for the deceased, they find a moment of common hope.
Filmography
as Lithuanian Teacher
as Velta
as Rasa
as Herself
as Miglė
as Veronika Gruodis
as Gabija
as Rasa
as Social Worker
as Vika
as Veronika