Back to Your Arms is part of the International Film Season 2012 in London
17, 23 February, 2012. A film by Kristijonas Vildžiūnas “Back to Your Arms” is part of the 10 days festival of the International Cinema at the Tricycle Theatre, celebrating the finest submissions to the 2012 Best Foreign Language Film Award category at the Academy Awards®.
It is 1961 and though the construction of the Berlin Wall is still a couple of months away, the struggle for propaganda victories between the Soviet-led East and the capitalist West is at its height. Separated since the last days of WWII, Vladas (Andrius Bialobžeskis), from Soviet Lithuania, and his daughter Rūta (Elžbieta Latėnaitė), raised in the US but now in West Berlin to study, are desperate to meet.
But Vladas is blanketed with KGB attention. After all, luring his American-raised daughter to East Berlin would be a propaganda coup. But Rūta is willing to risk anything to make the longed-for reunion happen…
Following the Thursday evening screening of “Back to your Arms”, will be a Q&A with the film’s director Kristijonas Vildžiūnas.
As part of the season, the festival is also working with Film Education to offer school groups the chance to sample Foreign Language Film for free. To find out more about these screenings visit http://www.filmeducation.org , email events@filmeducation.org or call 020 7292 7330.
17 February, Friday, 2.30 pm. Tickets: £5.50/£5.00
23 February, Thursday, 8.15 pm. Tickets: £8.50/£7.50
The Tricycle Theatre 269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR, tel. 020 7328 1000. To book your tickets please visit:
http://www.tricycle.co.uk/current-programme-pages/cinema-program/cinema/back-to-your-arms-kai-apkabinsiu-tave/
