Dance In The Desert
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The author Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961-2007) was considered a pioneer of contemporary Baltic literature well beyond the borders of Lithuania. Her work deals intensively with the tension between religion, sexuality and emancipation. Film documents and interviews serve to reconstruct the life of this independent and willful woman - from her childhood to her artistic breakthrough as a companion of the Lithuanian rock and punk scene, but also depicting her spiritual side, which brought her all the way to India, where she turned to Buddhism. She is shown as fighting for the Dalai Lama and a "free Tibet", shown as a literary mind, but first and foremost she is shown as a woman who stood bravely in the face of inconvenience, pain and inner demons.
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Agnė Marcinkevičiūtė Director · Vytautas V. Landsbergis Director
First release February 18, 2009 · Produced in Lithuania · Original title Šokis dykumoje
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Fralita Films
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Lithuania
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Original title
Šokis dykumoje
Original language
Lithuanian
Spoken on screen
Lithuanian
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Lithuania · February 18, 2009
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