Mr. Landsbergis

The Lithuanian fight for nationhood during the crucial years of 1989 -- 1991, threaded together by interviews with the first Head of the Lithuanian Parliament, the now 89-year-old Vytautas Landsbergis. Rather than overly summarize history for the sake of economy, or play fast and loose with context (as another filmmaker might), Loznitsa orients the viewer within major moments in the establishment of the Lithuanian state -- and the inverse dissolution of the Soviet one -- with astonishing deftness and drama. So thoroughly are these events sourced that we're given multiple angles on unchoreographed, often chaotic events such as citizen uprisings and military incursions.