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Setting up a back-up Lithuania. Reimagining future past with Nova Lituania
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An outtake from the film. / Nova Lituania/Screengrab
The film Nova Lituania, explores a geographer’s idea of a “reserve Lithuania” on the eve of the Second World War. Alexander Langstaff reports for New Eastern Europe, partners of LRT English.
It is 1938 and distinguished Lithuanian geographer Kazys Pakštas predicts the end of the world. Hatching a plan to set up a “back-up Lithuania” abroad, he fails to convince anyone except the country’s solitary prime minister.
In his beautiful debut feature film, Karolis Kaupinis recasts the familiar terrain of Europe’s demise with a bold adaptation of this true story. I talked with him about his mysterious film, Lithuania’s official submission for the 2021 Oscars.
Nova Lituania, directed by Karolis Kaupinis, M-Films 2019.
It is 1938 and distinguished Lithuanian geographer Kazys Pakštas predicts the end of the world. Hatching a plan to setup a “back-up Lithuania” abroad, he fails to convince anyone except the country’s solitary prime minister. In his beautiful debut feature film, Karolis Kaupinis recasts the familiar terrain of Europe’s demise with a bold adaptation of this true story. I talked with him about his mysterious film, Lithuania’s official submission for the 2021 Oscars.
Kaupinis first got interested in Pakštas
after seeing a new play about his life,
Madagascar, by Marius