Poezja, mitologia i ideologia. Obraz dziecka w twórczości filmowej Arūnasa Žebriūnasa.
Poetry, mythology and ideology. The image of the child in the films of Arūnas Žebriūnas.

Summary/Abstract: The author attempts to describe the specific film world of Lithuanian children’s film director Arūnas Žebriūnas. The analysis covers three most significant works of the artist completed in the Lithuanian Film Studio: "Last shot" ("Paskutinis šūvis", 1959), "Girl and the echo" ("Mergaitė ir aidas", 1964), and "Belle" ("Gražuolė", 1969). The author shows the ideological requirements which shaped the context in which the films were formed, she discusses the visual style of the films that combines poetry with formality, and describes the image of the child that is imaginative, sensitive and lyrical. Careful examination of the films leads to the conclusion that the form and style of poetic films were the result of political thaw and formal and aesthetic changes in the Soviet cinema, and that the child’s perspective that dominates in the films reveals truths, that otherwise, in another convention would be much more difficult to express. The symbolic language of the Lithuanian film director testifies that the child’s character can be a powerful tool of persuasion, a metaphor of modern historical facts, and that it is characterised by secrecy and certain mythical character.

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