The novel shoves children life in Lithuania. “You are expendable”. The main hero Juozukas lives in a poor family. He has been taken for a work to the farm as a shepherd directly from the lesson a...
Lithuanian commission last time flies to Moscow to negotiate the return of Vilnius. Beside the plane stands diplomat, director of the Department of Economy of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jo...
Wreaths are placed at the Freedom Monument. Solemn commemoration of the killed ones. Mourning procession. Work in the streets of Kaunas. Women dig the soil and plant the potatoes in Liberty Avenue. So...
Formation of soldiers. President of Lithuania Antanas Smetona and his wife. Uhlans. President inspects the formation of soldiers, talks to representatives of local authorities, listen to the greetings...
Rower Antanas Bagdonavičius is met in Vilnius airport after he returns from world championship where he has won silver medal. Airplane lands in the airport. Crowd of people meets the sportsmen. Poste...
After the World War I smith Ignotas returns home where finds changes being in process. The new communist ideas spread in his home village. Rich farmer and a count are in conflict with villagers. The v...
Building of thermal power station in Elektrėnai, the biggest in Lithuania. Construction site: cranes at work. Panels of concrete are raised. The four-storey residential houses are built. Railway trac...
Lithuanian activity in Chicago in 1938. The demonstration of the 1st of May. The meeting, speeches. The day of cemetery decoration. Lithuanian national cemetery. People in the cemetery, monuments. Tex...
Petra Biondina Volpe while shooting "Heldin" (2025)
Leonie Benesch in "Heldin" (2025)
Leonie Benesch in "Heldin" (2025)
At the start of the new school year, report on the construction of new schools and on the installation of temporary classrooms in prefabricated barracks to face the increase in the number of children.
Millions of Europeans, refugees and deportees, return to their homeland. The film shows the Americans' organized transfer of displaced persons, as well as the arrival in the Soviet zone of hundreds of...
A documentary film drawing attention to the dangers of pickpockets in public places - at a fair, in a cinema and on a tram. It uses reenactment, but pretends to be a hidden camera that observes what i...
The black-and-white film by Ernst Hirsch from 1959 was a commissioned production for the GDR's Deutsche Fernsehfunk. It shows the path that the art treasures, e.g. of the Green Vault and the Picture G...
The black-and-white film "Putti" is a collaborative work of the so-called amateur film studio of the Kulturbund Dresden from 1952, in which Ernst Hirsch acted as cameraman and the later DEFA director ...
Car ride, woman collecting berries on the roadside, debris in Halle (Saale), streetcar, Leipzig tower, market church. Viaduct in Gräfenthal (Thuringia). Woman playing with goats.
A "School for Officers" is established at the historic "Ecole Militaire" in Paris. Staff officers and senior officials from all 14 NATO countries are trained with the aim of forming an effective defen...
The documentary black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch shows Sorbian Easter riders on their procession from Bautzen to Radwor/Radibor in April 1954. The film also shows securing work on the roof of t...