A Trip Across Misty Meadows
Following a tradition of Lithuanian poetic documentary, the film details the dismantling of an old railway Siaurukas and the construction of its modern replacement. The old/new railway becomes the symbol of the clash between the archaic rural Lithuania and Soviet industrialization. The film had been considered by the critics to embody the essence of Lithuanianness.
Henrikas Šablevičius (1930-2004, Lithuania). A laureate of Lithuanian National Prize, the founder of the Department of TV and Film at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and a classic of Lithuanian documentary film. Henrikas Šablevičius was a teacher for several generations of Lithuanian documentary filmmakers. He continued and re-shaped the tradition of poetic documentary that existed as an opposition to the Soviet ideology of official documentary.