low lights
(feature film)
2009

35 mm/1:1,85/Colour/Dolby Digital/92 min/Original language: Lithuanian / Subtitles : English.

SYNOPSIS

LOW LIGHTS is an urban road movie about two men and a woman allied by one night car trip in the city streets.
TADAS (33) and LAURA (33) are a long-married couple with no children. They both work in an insurance company, have recently moved into a new flat that is still being upholstered, leased a new car. They seem to have achieved a lot in life already, however, their relationship has turned into a mere cold formality. TADAS is indifferent to his job and his evenings are spent clicking the TV remote. LAURA is climbing the steps of her career and keeps working longer just to come home later.
One usual workday, TADAS accidentally bumps into his former classmate. LINAS (33) had emigrated some time ago hoping to earn more money but it is already a couple of months that he is back, as he puts it himself, on holidays. LINAS introduces himself as an independent architect and offers TADAS his help with the never-ending work on his flat. The same night LINAS invites TADAS to hang out in the city.  
It is Monday night. Instead of a glass of beer in a bar, LINAS offers to tour the city streets in a car and slowly reveals the rituals of “night-driving” – driving the same streets one takes to work, draw only two litres of gas just to have a reason to stop at another petrol station, speed the dark suburban roads with the lights out… At first, Tadas finds all of this silly and weird rather than romantic. However, the situation changes as the men encounter a stunning stranger woman. LINAS is in fascination, whereas TADAS astonished – the mysterious beauty is his wife LAURA…
This is a story of people doomed for loneliness, trapped by the routine of a modern city life, longing for closeness, romance and sincerity. Made-up night driving rituals provoke to create a new universe. The banal and familiar maze of streets re-emerges with fresh unworn sensations, warm and human. Their night journey is short as a blink of an eye yet it allows diving into adventures yet unexperienced, discovering forgotten love and hope… Be it just for one short summer night.

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PRODUCED BY

TREMORA
(Lithuania)

DAGSTAR FILM
(Germany)

cast

Dainius Gavenonis
Julia Maria Köhler
Jonas Antanėlis

Kiril Glušajev
Mantas Kisielius
Tomas Kizelis
Denisas Kolomickis
Vaidas Kublinskas
Mindaugas Kucila
Martynas Morkūnas
Juri Padel
Šarūnas Puidokas
Jörg Reimers
Vilma Raubaitė
Donatas Vaišnoras

crew

PRODUCERS
Ieva Norvilienė
Dagmar Niehage

SCRIPT WRITER/DIRECTOR
Ignas Miškinis

DOP
Rolandas Leonavičius (LAC)

MAKE-UP
Astrid Mariaschk

COSTUME DESIGNER
Romy Reinfeld

SUPERVISING SOUND
EDITOR
Saulius Urbanavičius

PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Monika Bauert

MUSIC COMPOSER
Markus Aust

EDITOR
Gesa Marten

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Michael P. Aust

PRODUCED BY
Ieva Norvilienė
Dagmar Niehage

SHAMAN
Mantas Gimžauskas

1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Asta Rizgelienė

CASTING DIRECTOR
Kristin Diehle

PRODUCTION CONTROLER
Bernhard Speck

PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANT
Mantas Petrauskas
Mikalina Merkienė

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Rasa Rimkutė

SCRIPT SUPERVISOR
Jovita Groblytė

FOCUS PULLER
Jevgenij Salov

2nd ASSISTANT CAMERA
Audrius Zelenius

CLAPPER LOADER
Povilas Baltinas

GAFFER
Audrius Zagorskas

BEST BOY
Vitalij Kutko

LOW LOADER GRIP/ INSERT CAR
Düse
Peter Pompe

ART DIRECTOR
Algirdas Garbačiauskas

PICTURE VEHICLE COORDINATOR
Vytautas Vilimas

PROPS / SET DRESSER
Mindaugas Juodagalvis

ASSISTANT MAKE-UP ARTIST
Lina Mickevičiūtė

ASSISTANT EDITORS
Annette Duwe
Inka Gradinger
Barbara Hoffmann

MAKING OFF
Jūratė Samulionytė

LEGAL AFFAIRS
Monika Scholz
Gerda Leonavičienė

SCRIPT CONSULTANTS
Martin Daniel
Cornelia Köhler
Sebastian Stobbe

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