Regina Arbaciauskaite

Lithuanian Romeo and Juliet. 'Riesutu duona' contains very soft humor, a tender teenage love, life in a small village of Lithuania. No violence, no horror, no erotica. An old good film full of joy, kindness and moral values.

The story about one man- an artist and an intellectual- who was imprisoned by two brutal regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets. 'The Professor' is a man who lives by his own personal version of the Ten Commandments. After miraculously surviving imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a bit of ironic fate, he writes a memoir of his life, which becomes the target of the Soviet censors. The so-called "freedom" of Communism becomes just as oppressive as the German concentration camp. (imdb)