Darius Meškauskas

Acting

Darius Meškauskas

Acting credits

Mažvydas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mažvydas

1993

Kelias į Damaską poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kelias į Damaską

2007

The Saint poster
7.1

Lithuanian provincial town is facing the economic crisis in 2008. Vytas gets fired from the factory. Pushed by his wife, he immediately starts looking for a new job, but not really successfully. After having his haircut done, Vytas starts looking for a new love affair with a hairdresser Marija, but not really successfully, either. Finally, Vytas gets involved into a third search - he starts looking for a guy who posted video on youtube, claiming he saw Jesus Christ in their town. This is the only time he succeeds.

The Saint

2017

Together For Ever poster
5.0

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.

Together For Ever

2016

Ashes in the Snow poster
6.4

The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her drawings.

Ashes in the Snow

2018

Autumn Is Coming to the Woods poster
4.3

Evolving grim drama of love and wealth. The action takes you to the pre-war and shows the different social strata in rural life, everyday life, passions.

Autumn Is Coming to the Woods

1989

My Freedom poster
NR

Alicija (33), a Polish-born liberal free-thinker, joins the Awakening movement in occupied Latvia. Her newlywed husband Ilgvars (53), a man with the experience of another generation, calls her to be more careful and cautious. With the support of a close friend, the poet Normunds (40), Alicija soon comes to the forefront of the Singing Revolution. However, alongside the first success, difficulties appear – Alicija receives an anonymous letter accusing Ilgvars of being a former KGB informant. His ambiguous answer leads to her wanting to find out the truth. Realizing that her husband’s actions in the KGB have affected the fate of her close friend, Alicija faces an unenviable choice. Torn by internal contradictions, she continues her work to restore the country’s independence, unable to find courage to resolve the situation. Alicija buries herself in her work and the emotional connection with her husband gradually fades away.

My Freedom

2023

Alike poster
NR

After landing a role, a young actress faces an unusual request from the director that blurs the line between art and submission.

Alike

2025

Caucasus poster
6.5

Tekle and her young daughter, Ema, return from abroad to visit Dalia, Tekle’s mother. When Ema goes out to walk her dog, Dalia, fearing something terrible might happen to her granddaughter, starts looking for her.

Caucasus

2019

Vanishing Waves poster
5.8

Lucas is a scientist who works near the European experimental project that focus on advanced ‘human neuron research’. The project is to transfer neuron information from one human mind to another. Lukas is chosen to connect his mind with a comatose woman he named Aurora.

Vanishing Waves

2012

The Wedding poster
3.0

A corrupt politician tries to get some decency points by marrying his beloved daughter to a simple farm guy.

The Wedding

2019

Utterly Alone poster
7.7

The film portrays Lukša's attempts, in trips to western Europe, to gain support for the armed anti-Soviet resistance (known as the Forest Brothers), whose fortunes in a guerrilla war against Soviet authorities were waning, largely due to widespread infiltration and harsh crackdowns by the NKVD.

Utterly Alone

2004

And He Bid You Farewell poster
10.0

Film based on Eduardas Cinzas novel Moris Bred’s Notes. After car crash Marius finds himself in the pension house, together with it\s weird inhabitants. Marius recovers his memory but he cannot return to his previous life.

And He Bid You Farewell

1993

Owl Mountain poster
8.0

Radio Free Europe, BBC, and Voice of America can only rarely get through the Iron Curtain and Soviet mufflers to Lithuania, a country torn by a war between the local resistance movement and the Soviet regime that is forced onto Lithuanian people by bayonets of the Russian army. Everybody who tries to resist the Soviet rule is either terrorized or executed or exiled to Siberia. He is one of the local high-school students who witness the local armed resistance to the Soviet occupation and ultimately decide to join it by taking a gun into their hands. He collects documents and all possible kinds of evidence that prove daunting crimes of the Kremlin. He soon becomes a legend among his peers. To girls, he is John Wayne the Hollywood Icon. Guys see him as an insurmountable obstacle and an invincible rival in matters of love.

Owl Mountain

2018

Crucifixion poster
NR

A secretive man’s inner thoughts confronts against the reality.

Crucifixion

2020

The Roots Are Bitter poster
NR

A desperate couple tries to conceive a baby, unfortunately, Vytas is infertile. They look for a solution and get creative in the process, trying out weirder and weirder methods. This situation slowly forces Vytas to question his masculinity. The story reflects relationship problems of a messed up couple.

The Roots Are Bitter

2016

Vortex poster
6.6

Based on the novel by Romualdas Granauskas, the film is a chronicle of a young man’s shifting relationships as he adjusts rather dramatically to the unfamiliarity of freedom.

Vortex

2009

When You Wake Up poster
9.5

The singer called Punk is no longer of much interest to anyone. After his brush with fame, it only took a few years of drugs and alcohol to reach rock bottom. After yet another small town concert, Punk ends up spending the night backstage, drunk and alone. When he opens his eyes in the morning, he sees a little girl, who introduces herself as his daughter. Two lost souls set out on a trip together – a trip which will not only change their lives, but will also bring them together to appreciate the joy it brings.

When You Wake Up

2014

Watchkeeping poster
6.0

On a hot summer evening, a father and son try to make mother feel comfortable during her final hours at the hospital. The two men do everything they can to avoid admitting it is impossible to do anything more.

Watchkeeping

2017

Ghetto poster
6.8

In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beam stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jew Chief of Police Gens uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.

Ghetto

2006

Summer Survivors poster
7.2

A psychology postgraduate student escorts two patients and their nurse to a seaside psychiatric clinic. Along their journey, they break through each other's barriers, delve into the sources of their various traumas, and discover the lasting imprints left on their fragile souls.

Summer Survivors

2019

The Excursionist poster
6.1

A true story about an 11-year-old girl named Maria who makes her way back home to Lithuania from Siberia.

The Excursionist

2013

Pacific Islands poster
NR

A middle-aged woman arrives at a hotel where important events from her past took place. The visit takes an unexpected turn when she meets a young man.

Pacific Islands

Call To Action III poster
5.0

"Super,"" ""the best movie in the world,"" ""When can we download it?""—these were some of the reactions to Tadas Vidmantas' controversial debut film Gautas iškvietimas. Now, less than a year later, the trilogy concludes with Gautas iškvietimas 3. Following their unexpected success, the 7th Police Precinct faces a rare challenge—spending large sums of money. Their motto shifts from ""Protect, Serve, Help"" to ""Buy, Spend, Waste,"" but they soon realize that money can't buy happiness… though that won’t stop them from trying. Chaos follows them everywhere—dangerous calls, absurd situations, and endless trouble. Do riches change people? Which officer is expecting a baby? And will all beloved characters make it to the end? All this and more in the wildest, most star-studded Lithuanian police comedy yet—Gautas iškvietimas 3!

Call To Action III

2016