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Isaac

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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.
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Nick Schager Variety Nov 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. Go to Full Review
Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter Dec 11, 2019
A visually dazzling, Kafkaesque murder mystery. Go to Full Review
Michael Talbot-Haynes Film Threat Nov 16, 2021
8/10
Hernandez and Matamoros pull off several impressive feats with Isaac, both on and below the surface. Go to Full Review
Carey-Ann Pawsey Orca Sound Mar 30, 2021
Draws you in with its moral questions and how the human behaviour portrayed is universally relatable. Go to Full Review
Luke Foulder-Hughes Battle Royale With Cheese Mar 7, 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 Go to Full Review
Christopher Llewellyn Reed Hammer to Nail Feb 25, 2021
If the lessons are stark, the experience is always gripping. Go to Full Review
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stasys B @RT62186528 Aug 27, 2026 This is, as far as I know, the first and only Lithuanian film about the Holocaust. Visually stunning, it draws you in from the very beginning. It has everything: great music, drama, striking cinematography, and plenty of food for thought. See more
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Jurgis Matulevicius

Director

Jurgis Matulevičius

Director

Aleksas Kazanavicius

Andrius Gluosnis

Severija Janusauskaite

Elena

Dainius Gavenonis

Gediminas Gutauskas

Dainius Kazlauskas

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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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