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Adam Wants to Be a Man (1960)

Adam Wants to Be a Man (1960)

Drama
Release Date: 1960, March 6
Directors: Vytautas Žalakevičius
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Lithuanian Film Studio
Cast: Donatas Banionis, Algimantas Masiulis, Vaclovas Blėdis, Stasis Petronaitis, Bronius Babkauskas, Dana Rutkutė, Juozas Miltinis, Vitalijus Puodžiukaitis, Audrone Bajerciute, Valerijonas Derkintis, Janina Rudzinskaitė, Vaclovas Muraška

Overview:

In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds, lives Adam, a naive young man with no job and a lot of dreams. His closest friend is the Captain, an old sea wolf with many tales to tell about Singapore, Hawaii and other equally exotic and sunny places. Inspired by his stories, Adam manages to get a job in an emigration bureau and starts saving for his ticket to leave abroad.