Lithuania / 2010 / 90 mins / Dir: Kristijonas Vildziunas
Language: Lithuanian (with English subtitles)
Cast: Giedrius Arbaciauskas, Andrius Bialobzeskis, Elžbieta Latenaite and Margarita Broich

Following the Thursday evening screening of Back to your Arms, will be a Q&A with the film’s director Kristijonas Vildziunas.

It is 1961 and though the construction of the Berlin Wall is still a couple of months away, the struggle for propaganda victories between the Soviet-led East and the capitalist West is at its height. Separated since the last days of WWII, Vladas (Andrius Bialobžeskis), from Soviet Lithuania, and his daughter Ruta (Elžbieta Latenaite), raised in the US but now in West Berlin to study, are desperate to meet.

But Vladas is blanketed with KGB attention. After all, luring his American-raised daughter to East Berlin would be a propaganda coup. But Ruta is willing to risk anything to make the longed-for reunion happen…

Following the Thursday evening screening of Back to your Arms, will be a Q&A with the film’s director Kristijonas Vildziunas.

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