Albinas Budnikas

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.

This is a story about a young man striving to make a career and money, about his cunning intrigues when he throws honor, friendship and feelings under his feet, using gullible people.

About the life and customs of the pre-war Lithuanian bourgeoisie in the seaside resort of Palanga.

The resourceful rural tailor Vincas offers the wealthy but tight-fisted landowner Antanas to lend his impoverished neighbor a couple of thousand rubles and in return get his daughter Agota as a wife with a large dowry. Then Vincas easily persuades Agota to steal the borrowed money from her father and flee to America together...

A modest and unpretentious engineer, works as a sociologist at a factory. His life is ordinary: feuds with colleagues, lack of money, everyday problems. He would have lived like this if one day “business people” had not offered him to work for them. But he finds himself at a crossroads: work with the mafia and live in abundance, or continue to exist modestly, but not change his principles...

A former angel tires of singing Hosannah, and is now an impish devil condemned to live on Earth. From his home in a windmill, he pursues love and happiness in a hilarious and sometimes tragic turmoil that affects the whole countryside.

The fate of a young man who went to America to seek happiness, his longing for his homeland and the search for true values...

There is a belief that if you find a five-leaf clover, a happy marriage awaits you... Several men from the Bachelors' Union want to get married to avoid high taxes, but there is only one suitable bride...