Lithuania, 1948. War is over, but the country is left in ruins. 19-year-old Untė is a member of the Partisan movement resisting Soviet occupation. They do not fight on equal terms, but this desperate struggle will determine the future of the whole population. At the age of discovery of life, Untė discovers violence and treachery. The lines are blurred between the burning passion of his youth and the cause for which he is fighting. He will invest himself wholeheartedly, even if it means losing his innocence...
Šarūnas Bartas (Siauliai, Lithuania. 1964) directed, in 1991, his first feature film, Trys dienos (Three Days), premiered in the Forum section of Berlin Festival. Particularly worthy of note in his filmography are Few of Us (1996) and A Casa (The House, 1997), both premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Festival de Cannes; Freedom (2000), which competed in Venice; Septyni nematomi žmonės (Seven Invisible Men, 2005), screened in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes; Indigène d'Eurasie (Eastern Drift, 2010), with which he returned to the Berlinale Forum and which was included in San Sebastian Festival’s Eastern Promises retrospective in 2014; Peace to Us in Our Dreams (2015) and Frost (2017), both screened at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes. Sutemose is included in the official selection of the 2020 Festival de Cannes, cancelled due to covid-19.