In 1941, as Stalin’s army marched through Lithuania, a 16-year-old girl, her family, and thousands of men, women, and children who had been accused of treason were deported to Siberia.
It is a heartbreaking and soul-crushing story about a nation we know little about and the same nation’s suffering that we know even less. It is a powerful drama based on Ruta Sepetys’ book “Between Shades of Gray” (Don’t you dare mix it up!), directed by Marius A. Markevicius, with two actors leading strong: Bel Powley and Martin Wallström.
Shot on a moderate budget, it lacks the Hollywood flamboyance, but the message comes across straight through and expands to the rest of the Baltic people and whoever else faced the Russian atrocities. Shamelessness and misanthropy add to the film’s drama, history, and romance and clash the two forces that are battling over the human soul in abhorrent times like this: hope and despair.
A massive round of applause to Sorrento Productions, Tauras Films, Twilight Merengue Studios, and Vertical Entertainment, which produced and distributed the film. And then another one to the Lithuanian government for allowing and supporting it.
People are often wondering how the descendants of the Nazis feel nowadays about their ancestors. How about the Russians’ ancestors? How about the current followers of the same regime that still exists and still oppresses, has surpassed the deaths caused by the fascist regimes, and competes with the deaths caused by theocratic ones?
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Solidarity for all the innocent lives who suffer the atrocities of war!
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