Robertas Verba was a pioneer of Lithuanian poetic documentary, a chronicler of Lithuanian national revival, a director, cameraman and scriptwriter. He made over thirty documentaries and filmed hundreds of videos chronicling that historic period. He graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography as a cameraman. According to film critic Živilė Pipinytė, the films he made in 1965–1970 “shaped the genetic fund of Lithuanian documentary film – its stylistic features, the taste for metaphoric image as well as minimalism of a means of expression”.