Faktas

Faktas
Film poster
Directed by	Almantas Grikevičius
Written by	Vytautas Zalakevicius
Starring	Regimantas Adomaitis Donatas Banionis Juozas Budraitis
Release date	1981 (1981)
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

• Regimantas Adomaitis as Jonas Buckus
• Vaiva Mainelytė, Kazia, Jonas's wife
• Donatas Banionis, Colonel Titelis
• Juozas Budraitis
• Uldis Dumpis [lv], Šmidermanas
• Aleksandr Kaidanovsky
• Irena Leonavičiūtė [lt], Teklė, daughter of Peciukonis
• Arnis Līcītis
• Algimantas Masiulis, Peciukonis
• Laimonas Noreika [lt] "Džanas-amerikonas" ("John the American")
• Yelena Solovey
• Leonid Obolensky, shepherd Aleksandras
• Eugenija Pleskyte
• Kostas Smoriginas, investigator's voice

Awards

• Main Prize at the 14th All-Union Film Festival (1981).
• 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.

References

External links

• Faktas at IMDb