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FROST

ŠERKŠNAS

By Sarunas BARTAS

Drama - Completed 2017

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- LITHUANIA, FRANCE, UKRAINE, POLAND
- Languages
- LITHUANIAN, UKRANIAN, RUSSIAN, POLISH, ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Duration
- 115 mn
- Director(s)
- Sarunas BARTAS
- Cast
- Mantas JANCIAUSKAS, Lyja MAKNAVICIUTE, Andrzej CHYRA, Vanessa PARADIS
- Producer(s)
- Jurga DIKCIUVIANE (STUDIO KINEMA)
- Synopsis
- Two young Lithuanians, Rokas and Inga, volunteer to travel from Lithuania to Ukraine with a humanitarian aid convoy. On the way, their plans change. Through Poland and western Ukraine, they enter the snows of the Donbas, where, driven by curiosity, they approach the front line to palpably sense the danger of war. Frost, which premiered in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section at the Cannes Film Festival, is made up of elements that are well known to fans of Šarūnas Bartas's auteur cinema. This minimalistic road movie is based on dramatic asceticism, naturalistic, gray images and languid narration. The film's sparing emotional layer hides a powerful, universal eloquence about the completely unimaginable suffering and cruelty of war, the somber people caught up in it, and devastated, morose landscapes. Frost is a co-production that Poland also played a role in. In addition to Lithuanian actors, the supporting cast also included Vanessa Paradis and Andrzej Chyra