The Excursionist

The Excursionist (2013)

Ekskursantė

Love and belief do wonders.

A true story about an 11-year-old girl named Maria who makes her way back home to Lithuania from Siberia.

Date of release
2013-09-27
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Action, Drama
Director
Audrius Juzėnas

Casting

Interesting facts

The Excursionist is a 2013 Lithuanian historical drama film that dramatizes the story of an eleven-year old Lithuanian girl Marija who escapes from a Soviet deportation to Siberia. Directed by Audrius Juzėnas, with the screenplay of Pranas Morkus, it is the first Lithuanian non-documentary film about Soviet deportations. The plot is loosely based on a real-life story published in Komjaunimo tiesa in 1989. Film languages are Lithuanian and Russian. The name of the film refers to an episode when Marija pretends to be a Russian girl strayed from an excursion.

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