LT

2012

60 min

Finished

Father

Tėvas

Directing: Marat Sargsyan

Synopsis

Vidas Zenonas Antonovas has been noted in the book of the most interesting criminals of Soviet Union. He stole around a million rouble s from the state’s institutions. Together with his accomplices, he hijacked a plane with passengers in order to split for Africa. He has been nicknamed “The Father of Mafia“. He did 20 years in 15 different prisons. Now he is 71 and has a big family - 10 children, 2 grandchildren and a newborn son. It 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 about. It is a love story of one family. There are neither romantic moments nor miracle changes. But there is a strong potential to change our understanding about what happy and loving family is or could be.