Faktas
| Faktas | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Almantas Grikevičius |
| Written by | Vytautas Zalakevicius |
| Starring | Regimantas Adomaitis Donatas Banionis Juozas Budraitis |
Release date |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Languages | Russian, Lithuanian |
Faktas (English: "Fact", alternative Russian title: Группа крови „Ноль“, romanized: Gruppa krovi nol, "Blood Group Zero") is a 1981 Soviet Lithuanian-language war film directed by Almantas Grikevičius.
The film is a recreation based on documents of an actual historical fact from World War II, the Pirčiupiai massacre: on June 3, 1944, German soldiers burned the village of Pirčiupiai with all 119 of its inhabitants.
Cast
[edit]- Regimantas Adomaitis as Jonas Buckus
- Vaiva Mainelytė, Kazia, Jonas's wife
- Donatas Banionis, Colonel Titelis
- Juozas Budraitis
- Uldis Dumpis, Šmidermanas
- Aleksandr Kaidanovsky
- Irena Leonavičiūtė, Teklė, daughter of Peciukonis
- Arnis Līcītis
- Algimantas Masiulis, Peciukonis
- Laimonas Noreika "Džanas-amerikonas" ("John the American")
- Yelena Solovey
- Leonid Obolensky, shepherd Aleksandras
- Eugenija Pleskyte
- Kostas Smoriginas, investigator's voice
Awards
[edit]- Main Prize at the 14th All-Union Film Festival (1981).[1]
- The film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival under the title Gruppa krovi nol, where Yelena Solovey won the award for Best Supporting Actress in Feature Films.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ↑ КИНО: Энциклопедический словарь, chief editor С. И. Юткевич, Moscow, Советская энциклопедия, 1987, p. 83
- ↑ "GROUPPA KROVI NOL. Almantas GRIKIAVICIUS". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 31 May 2026.
- ↑ Elena SOLOVEI
