Faktas (English: "Fact", , "Blood Group Zero") is a 1981 Soviet Lithuanian-language war film directed by Almantas Grikevičius.
The film is a recreation based on documents of an actual historical fact from World War II, the Pirčiupiai massacre: on June 3, 1944, German soldiers burned the village of Pirčiupiai with all 119 of its inhabitants.
Cast Regimantas Adomaitis as Jonas Buckus Vaiva Mainelytė, Kazia, Jonas's wife Donatas Banionis, Colonel Titelis Juozas Budraitis , Šmidermanas Aleksandr Kaidanovsky , Teklė, daughter of Peciukonis Arnis Līcītis Algimantas Masiulis, Peciukonis "Džanas-amerikonas" ("John the American") Yelena Solovey Leonid Obolensky, shepherd Aleksandras Eugenija Pleskyte Kostas Smoriginas, investigator's voice
Awards Main Prize at the 14th All-Union Film Festival (1981).КИНО: Энциклопедический словарь, chief editor С. И. Юткевич, Moscow, Советская энциклопедия, 1987, p. 83 The film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival under the title Gruppa krovi nol, where Yelena Solovey won the award for Best Supporting Actress in Feature Films.Elena SOLOVEI References
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