1959 · drama · social
Adam Wants to Be a Man
Directed by Vytautas Žalakevičius1h 23m1959
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.
Our read: Adam Wants to Be a Man (1959) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · social entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / social, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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