Awakening

The drama takes place in the beginning of the 40s, with the upsurge of Stalinism and Lithuania threatened by Fascism. For the two school friends Pijus and Kazys who once cherished love for the same girl, life had in store two quite contradictory paths. Pijus is made one of the KGB investigating authorities, and is to interrogate Kazys, now the leader of the Lithuanian underground resistance. According to Pijus, Kazys must reveal his secrets, and only then will Pijus allow Kazys to live and return to his wife. Otherwise the torture of investigation will fall on Kazys’s young wife, who is a spoilt, fragile person and not capable of heroic actions. In this film, the individual can not be only the means of social inevitability in a state mechanism. The director implies that each character must make his moral choice but not ‘all’ can. In fatal choices man is always given a chance of a higher realisation – but not women. —haussite.net