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Portraits of Voyages: Lithuania - The Hill of Crosses (2013)

Portraits of Voyages: Lithuania - The Hill of Crosses (2013)

Animation
Release Date: 2013, August 1
Directors: Bastien Dubois
Countries: France
Production: Sacrebleu Productions, ARTE
Cast: Vytas Kraujelis

Overview:

A short animated telling of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania, a place of pilgrimage consisting of a formidable accumulation of crosses that was often razed during the Soviet period. Coming to replant a cross was then an act of resistance.

Keywords:

religion politics soviet union lithuania