2 films on booksmugglers

[Skomand]

Trailer - Book Smugglers (Knygnesiai)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFpQuAOiXkk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Safla4aCvnk



"Knygnesys" 2011 pilnas filmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8byTZ60pjQ

[Minde]

eta movye be ne pa-engliski why bother sharing then be it even has no subtitle. Or i to stupid to find

[Skomand]

http://booksmugglersthemovie.com/


"Knygnesys" needs no sub-titles, the pictures are self-explanatory.

[lI]

eta movye be ne pa-engliski why bother sharing then be it even has no subtitle. Or i to stupid to find

Press CC button for English subtitles:

[Skomand]

Some choices in the film are symbolic.
The old smuggler's name is Mazvydas. Mazvydas is the author of the first book in Lithuanian, Luther's catechism.
Alcoholism is an old Lithuanian vice, which also affected East-Prussian Lithuanians.
Valancius, the bishop in the film, campaigned against it.

[lI]

Alcoholism is an old Lithuanian vice, which also affected East-Prussian Lithuanians.

It is Prussia itself who is partly to blame on the alcoholism of Lithuanians to begin with. The already well established East Prussian vodka smuggling network was precisely what the book-smuggling was later built on. A very interesting book was recently published about this subject (among other things).

Vodka was even called in Lithuania "sea schnaps" at that time, even nowadays this German loanword is still very popular in everyday language, unlike the Russian one.

[Skomand]

Lithuanian alcoholism is old.

This is a 1595 quote from Caspar Henneberger:

http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparas_Henenbergeris


Im Insterburgischen Amt „waren … fast nur Litauer, die ein starkes Volk sind und nach ihrer Art gottesfürchtig, die ihre Pfarrer ehren, der Obrigkeit gehorsam sind und willig tun, wozu sie verpflichtet sind. Doch wenn sie darüber hinaus belastet werden, halten sie zusammen und werden aufsässig wie die Bienen … und ob sie auch wohl mit dem leidigen Sauflaster, das in diesen Landen sehr gemein ist, beladen sind, so auch, dass sie zeitweilig alle voll, Junge, Alte, Männer, Weiber, Knechte, Mägde, nicht anders als das Vieh zusammen auf der Streu liegen, doch ohne dass man irgendeine Unzucht von ihnen erfährt.“ (Caspar Henneberger, 1595,

...and although they are plagued by rampant alcoholism , which is wide-spread in this land, they may lie completely drunk on the straw together like cattle: young, old, men, women, labourers and maids, and you will never witness any act of unchastity on their part ..

[Skomand]

Slide show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py8-NKH_o6w

[Aunt Hilda]

I thought it's a documentary.
Or am I just to stupid to find it?

[Skomand]

Complete film available in HD:

KNYGNEŠIAI _ SMUGLÉIRÍ LEABHAR _ BOOK SMUGGLERS - FILM



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1806820/
An Irish language poet travels to Lithuania to tell the story of the 19th century Book Smugglers, who risked their lives to protect Lithuanian against Russification, by smuggling books, newspapers, magazines into the country from Prussia and distributing them along clandestine networks. In doing so, the poet is bound to reflect on the decline of his own language, and the relationship between the language we speak and our national and personal identity