Adam Wants to Be a Man
1960•1h 23m•5.9•Released
Drama
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.
Director
Vytautas Žalakevičius
Writer
Vytautas Žalakevičius, Vytautas Sirijos Gira
Languages
Lithuanian
Studio
Lithuanian Film Studio
Cast
Vitalijus Puodžiukaitis
Adam
Audrone Bajerciute
Liuce
Stasis Petronaitis
Petras
Juozas Miltinis
Captain
Valerijonas Derkintis
Petras' father
Vaclovas Blėdis
«Amerikonas»
Donatas Banionis
Dausa
Dana Rutkutė
Blondinė
Janina Rudzinskaitė
Liucės teta
Bronius Babkauskas
«Tipas»
Algimantas Masiulis
Kelneris
Vaclovas Muraška
Valstietis
Production
Company
Lithuanian Film Studio
Producer
Slaume Berelovicius
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