Back to Your Arms

Name: Kai apkabinsiu tave
Genre: Drama
Released: 2010-11-26
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Elzbieta Latenaite, Andrius Bialobzeskis, Margarita Broich

Original title: Kai apkabinsiu tave

2010
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

272

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Drama

Ethnic Lithuanian father and daughter Vladas and Ruta were separated during the events of WWII when Ruta was just a child--she ended up with her mother--and have not seen each other since. V... Read allEthnic Lithuanian father and daughter Vladas and Ruta were separated during the events of WWII when Ruta was just a child--she ended up with her mother--and have not seen each other since. Vladas remained in what in June 1961 is Soviet-occupied Lithuania; Ruta lives in Chicago. T... Read allEthnic Lithuanian father and daughter Vladas and Ruta were separated during the events of WWII when Ruta was just a child--she ended up with her mother--and have not seen each other since. Vladas remained in what in June 1961 is Soviet-occupied Lithuania; Ruta lives in Chicago. They have kept in touch via letters, using fake names to protect themselves from the potent... Read all

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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

272

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- 8 wins & 2 nominations

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Lithuania's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards 2012.

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3/10

Boring, Slow, and More Boring

I saw this at the Cleveland International Film Festival with a Lithuanian in a theater full of Lithuanians. Ruta is a young girl who fled to America with her mother right after WWII and the Communist occupation of Lithuania. She returned to Germany hoping to reunite with her beloved father, who is was unable to escape Communism and is under control of the KGB.

The story isn't bad, and could have made a good movie. But the direction is slow, distracting, and there are long pauses and focus on irrelevant people and objects that just detract from the story. The overwhelming theme is people smoking. There are actually scenes that focus solely on an ashtray and cigarettes flicking ash. These fill the screen for significant time, and it's as though the director needed to fill time.

When the lights came up there were people asleep or close to it. It was beyond the stamina of most everyone to endure the long, lingering scenes where nothing happened.

Stay away.