In the Dusk – My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers

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BOY caught in the anomaly of war: Marius Povlias Elijas Martynenko is Unte in Sharunas Bartas’s ‘In the Dusk’. Photograph courtesy Versfeld & Associates.

It is 1948 and Lithuania is caught between the tail end of Hitler’s cruelty and the as yet unrevealed horror Stalin’s slippery promises. Unte (Marius Povlias Elijas Martynenko), with his sultry, almost androgynous yet somewhat mongoloid features is the ponderously gentle central protagonist. He’s a son, yet not a son. A partisan sympathiser, yet not a partisan. A man, yet not yet grown. A strange and intense outsider in a story that touches his insides. And in a sense, his ambiguity reflects on Lithuania’s in In the Dusk, a brooding, soulful work, which features on this year’s European Film Festival South Africa, available online and without cost between 12 and 22 November, because of the ongoing pandemic.

In the Dusk is not an easy film to watch. Featuring devastatingly fine photography which immerses…

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