Cheer Up, Virginijus!
Viewers interested in modern Documentary cinema often explore Cheer Up, Virginijus! because of its cast, story direction, and audience popularity.
The film about the city of Naujoji Akmenė is regarded as one of the first Lithuanian attempts to liberate itself from the stereotypes of the Soviet documentary. Even though the remnants of the “Socialist prosperity” are clearly perceptible in the movie, the process of directing is obtaining more freedom: the voiceover is losing its canonization, and the power of the narrator is given to the main character, a small child Virginijus.
