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Tom Harper (director) & Tuppence Middleton as Helene Kuragin
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War and Peace director Tom Harper: ‘I felt like an army general myself, but with less severe consequences’

January 25, 2016 David van Roon 0

Tom Harper, director of the BBC‘s latest adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s epic War & Peace, returns to Vilnius, the backdrop of many of the series’ scenes, for the first screening in Lithuania. David van Roon of the Lithuania Tribune speaks with Harper about Lithuania’s most beautiful film locations, local cuisine and how directing an army of actors in a battle scene is not all that different from commanding an actual army. […]

Artūras Morozovas
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Moments from Maidan captured by Lithuanian photographer up for Oscar

January 21, 2016 LT Daily 0

Director‘s Evgeny Afineevsky film about the conflict in Ukraine, Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, which includes much of DELFI photographer‘s Artūras Morozovas footage and photos, was nominated in the best documentary film category in the upcoming Academy Awards. […]

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17th annual Epiphany procession made way through frozen Vilnius

January 7, 2016 David van Roon 0

The annual Epiphany procession that made its way through Vilnius on Thursday was watched by passers-by and people who had come out especially for the occasion alike. With this procession the end of the Christmas festivities was celebrated. […]

Kūčiukai cookies
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Store-bought kūčiukai Christmas cookies more popular than traditional home-made variety

December 24, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Though kūčiukai, the tiny Lithuanian poppy cookies baked for Christmas Eve (Kūčios), have traditionally been hand-made for the holidays, 64 percent of Lithuanian consumers prefer buying these cookies from supermarkets instead, according to a survey performed by the RAIT survey company. […]

Tomas Venclova
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Tomas Venclova presented with Jerzy Giedroyc award in Poland

December 3, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 1 December in Warsaw, the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita presented the Jerzy Giedroyc award to Tomas Venclova, the Lithuanian poet, translator, publicist, and a well-known figure, for contributing to the current literary scene in Central and Eastern Europe. The award was also presented to the Institute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]