Director Marat Sargsyan's documentary film "Father" at Krakow Film Festival received two major prizes

On the last day of spring ended one of the oldest in Europe, the 53rd Krakow Film Festival, and it gave even two prizes for Lithuanian documentary film "Father".

The documentary competition jury led by Sergey Dvortsevoy, among members of which was the Head of the European Film Academy Marion Döring, awarded the Silver Horn to the film - a prize for the the Best Medium-Length Documentary.  They based their decision with these words: "This portrayal of a controversial man avoids any attempt of judgement on the part of the filmmaker and relies on the impact of the images."

Another no less important appreciation of the film came from the Polish Society of Cinematographers (PSC), which presented a special prize for the best cinematography to the cinematographer of the film Linas Dabriška, for capturing and showing on screen the beauty. 

The documentary film "Father" takes a very close look at today's life of Vidas Zenonas Antonovas.  He stole a million roubles from various government agencies, he was entered in the book of the most interesting Soviet Union criminals of the twentieth century. In 15 different prisons Antonovas spent 20 years of his life.  Today, he is 71 years old.  He has a large family - 10 children, 2 grandchildren and a newborn son. 

The film was introduced for the first time to an international audience in April this year at the festival "Visions du Reel" (Switzerland), where the film also won the prize for the best medium-length film.

Trailer of the film "Father" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdXJwukk8ic