Isaac

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Isaac

2019

1h 44m

Drama

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In 1941, a Lithuanian man kills his neighbor Jew, Isaac, at the Lietūkis garage massacre. Twenty five years later in Soviet Lithuania, movie director Gediminas Gutauskas returns from the USA with a screenplay of a film that portrays, in details, the Lietūkis garage massacre and describes a particular situation where Isaac, the Jew, is killed. The screenplay is later brought to the attention and investigated by the KGB. Why does a director, who once relocated to the USA, return to Soviet Lithuania? Why is his scenario so unusually historically accurate to the massacre, as though he would have witnessed it himself? Perhaps he knows someone who attended the massacre themselves? The aftermath of the murder returns many years later to cripple life and love. "Isaac" is a trip into the past, and its rotting world, based on the neighbor Isaac's rotten murder. This film as well is about relationship between two friends who where separated by historic circumstances, shock of war, traumas and experiences of exile, but who shared the love for the same woman.

Nick Schager

Variety

11/23/2021

Its obliqueness may preclude it from attracting a wide domestic audience, but such haziness is part and parcel of a work about the lingering, lethal fog of war.

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Stephen Dalton

The Hollywood Reporter

12/11/2019

A visually dazzling, Kafkaesque murder mystery.

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Film Threat

11/16/2021

8/10

Hernandez and Matamoros pull off several impressive feats with Isaac, both on and below the surface.

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Carey-Ann Pawsey

Orca Sound

03/30/2021

Draws you in with its moral questions and how the human behaviour portrayed is universally relatable.

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Luke Foulder-Hughes

Battle Royale With Cheese

03/07/2021

I'd recommend this to people who like watching films like 'Come and See' which handle a heavy subject matter in a bleak and depressing way

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Christopher Llewellyn Reed

Hammer to Nail

02/25/2021

If the lessons are stark, the experience is always gripping.

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Synopsis

In 1941, a Lithuanian man kills his neighbor Jew, Isaac, at the Lietūkis garage massacre. Twenty five years later in Soviet Lithuania, movie director Gediminas Gutauskas returns from the USA with a screenplay of a film that portrays, in details, the Lietūkis garage massacre and describes a particular situation where Isaac, the Jew, is killed. The screenplay is later brought to the attention and investigated by the KGB. Why does a director, who once relocated to the USA, return to Soviet Lithuania? Why is his scenario so unusually historically accurate to the massacre, as though he would have witnessed it himself? Perhaps he knows someone who attended the massacre themselves? The aftermath of the murder returns many years later to cripple life and love. "Isaac" is a trip into the past, and its rotting world, based on the neighbor Isaac's rotten murder. This film as well is about relationship between two friends who where separated by historic circumstances, shock of war, traumas and experiences of exile, but who shared the love for the same woman.

Director: Jurgis Matulevicius, Jurgis Matulevičius
Producer: Stasys Baltakis
Screenwriter: Jurgis Matulevicius, Saule Bliuvaite, Jurgis Matulevičius, Nerijus Milerius
Production Co: Film Jam
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Lithuanian
Runtime: 1h 44m

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