Sarūnas Bartas

Šarūnas Bartas (2015)

Šarūnas Bartas , sometimes Anglicized Sharunas Bartas , (born August 16, 1964 in Šiauliai , Lithuanian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Lithuanian film director .

life and work

After finishing his studies at the Soviet film school WGIK in Moscow, Bartas founded his own film studio KINEMA on the outskirts of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius in the late 1980s . Equipped with the necessary technology, he can make films relatively independently. His works largely dispense with narration , they are mostly gloomy, show people in remote places and in extreme situations. In Korridor (1994), for example, life is observed in the long hallway of a dilapidated house, Few of Us (1996) shows a young woman who finds herself in a remote place in the middle of the steppe, and in Freedom (2000) three people land an inhospitable Mediterranean beach.

In 1998, Bartas was on the jury of the Venice International Film Festival .

He was married to the Russian actress Ekaterina Golubewa (1966-2011), whom he discovered and who starred in some of his films.

reception

Although Bartas' cinema is mostly described as inaccessible, his films regularly find a small audience at festivals and in regular French cinema. Actors and directors such as Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Leos Carax have worked with him. The Franco-Portuguese producer Paulo Branco has produced many of the director's films.

Filmography

• 1986: Tofolaria
• 1990: Praėjusios dienos atminimui (In Memory of the Day Passed By)
• 1991: Trys dienos (Three Days)
• 1994: Koridorius (Corridor)
• 1996: Few of Us
• 1997: A Casa (The House)
• 1999: Pola X (as an actor)
• 2000: Freedom
• 2004: Visions of Europe
• 2005: Seven Invisible Men
• 2010: Eastern Drift (Indigène d'Eurasie)
• 2015: Bize Rüyalarımızda Huzur Ver (Peace to us in our Dreams)
• 2017: Ayaz (Frost)

Web links

• Sharunas Bartas in the Internet Movie Database (English)