Walnut Bread

Lithuania, 1977. Memories of childhood, adolescence, and first love in a small provincial town, shown through complexity of human relations at this periodical film.

Cast

Leonid Obolensky

as Andriaus senelis

Saulius Sipaitis

as Antanas, Andriaus tėvas

Doloresa Kazragytė

as Elytė, Andriaus mama

Algirdas Latėnas

as Andrius Šatas

Stasys Jonynas

as Andrius vaikystėje

Antanas Šurna

as Kaminskas

Regina Arbačiauskaitė

as Kaminskienė

Elvyra Piškinaitė

as Liuka Kaminskaitė

Marija Lukaševskaja

as Liuka vaikystėje

Kostas Smoriginas

as Peliūkštis

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