SYNOPSIS
Vidas Zenonas Antonovas is known as one of the most interesting criminals of the Soviet Union. He stole around one million rubles from state institutions and in an effort to escape to Africa, together with his accomplices, hijacked a plane with passengers. He has been nicknamed “The Father of Mafia”. Twenty years of his life have been spent in 15 different prisons. He is already 71-years old and has an abundant family: 10 children, 2 grandchildren, and a newborn son.
Father is a documentary about the values of an ex-con, about a man challenging time and destiny, about the drives of an insatiable lust for life. It is a love story of one family. There are neither romantic moments nor miraculous changes but the strong potential to change our understanding about what a happy family is or could be.
Awards
Best film | Visions du Reel IFF, Switzerland, 2013
CAST & CREW
Marat Sargsyan
Director
Producer(s)
Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė, Jonas Špokas
Script
Marat Sargsyan
Director of Photography
Linas Dabriška
Sound
Kostas Radlinskas
Edit
Jan De Coster
Production company(ies)
Just a moment
Marat Sargsyan
Born 1978, Vanadzor, Armenia. At the age of 13, Sargsyan started to work in local television as editor and director of photography. In 1994 he moved with his family to Lithuania, where he continued his work on different TV projects. He has made more than ten award-winning music videos. From 2005-2011, Sargsyan entered the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre where he received a master’s degree in TV and Film Directing.
Filmography
Lernavan (2009), Father (2012).
