Leonas Stanevičius

This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A young investigator, Andrews, arrives in a small town from Vilnius to investigate a trivial case of the theft of 8 tons of meat from a local factory. Due to the lack of places in the hotel, Andrews stayed at the house of Ewaldas Shvegreda. Andrews feels that there is some kind of connection between Shvegzhda and the accountant of the meat processing plant, Stankevicius...

An eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet, making fun of chauvinism and petty politicians.