The best Lithuanian film of 2013 "The Excursionist" is released on DVD

The best Lithuanian film of 2013, winner of the Silver Crane award, "The Excursionist" by director Audrius Juzėnas will soon be released on DVD. The film was distributed by the company UAB "Cinemark", and it will be reborn in the disk form a year after the official premiere. Having begun its trip to cinema screens in September 2013, "The Excursionist" found its way to the hearts of 54 thousand viewers and earned more than 600 thousand litas, winning sympathies of those who have seen it.

The award-winning "The Excursionist" has travelled film festivals around the world, and already in November it will be released on DVD and sold in all the major shopping centres of our country.

"The Excursionist" is a film based on a true story of eleven-year-old girl from Lithuania. Having escaped from the freight train overfilled with deportees that was taking her and her family to Siberia, she covered 6,000 kilometres long, full of danger and adventures journey back home, to Lithuania.

On her way she met various people: poor Russian woman who lives in an abandoned village in the taiga, drunkard driver, train conductor, gang of robbers who had escaped from the labour camps, cruel doctor working in a children's camp, smitten plane pilot, member of the NKVD and NKVD soldiers who were hunting Lithuanian partisans... And all of them shortened the girl's trip to her Motherland, risking not only personal freedom, but also their lives. Some people she met demeaned her, some indifferently turned away and did not disturb her journey. Only a few of them agreed to help implementing her hope to return home to Lithuania. This is a film about hope and destiny, love and friendship, sacrifice and good heart, and immeasurable love for one's land, one's Motherland...