A corridor in a derelict tenement. In beautiful and photographic black & white, Bartas provides a number of melancholy portraits of the inhabitants of this corridor, living in a world of decay and fall. The film does not tell a linear story, but offers a collage of occasionally still, sometimes less poetic moments. The result is a completely original amalgam of artificial stylisation and documentary realism. The Corridor provides in a nutshell the state of affairs typical of present-day Eastern Europe, According to the maker, an apocalyptic world, in which affection is lost more rapidly than rediscovered. Alongside an unvarnished picture of down- and-out types, the film also provides a fine portrait of actress Katerina Golubeva (leading lady in Bartas' earlier film Trys Dienos and in J'ai pas sommeil by Claire Denis) and of the film-maker himself.
- Director
- Sharunas Bartas
- Country of production
- Lithuania
- Year
- 1994
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 1996
- Length
- 79'
- Medium
- 35mm
- International title
- The Corridor
- Producers
- Studio Uljana Kim, Sharunas Bartas, Werner Dütsch
- Sales
- TV-Ventures, EYE Film Institute Netherlands
- Screenplay
- Sharunas Bartas
- Sound Design
- Vladimir Golovnitski
- Cast
- Sharunas Bartas
- Local Distributor
- EYE Film Institute Netherlands