Directed by Arūnas Žebriūnas • Drama • With Gediminas Girdvainis, Vaiva Mainelytė • 1974 • 76 minutes
In the early 1970s, behind the Iron Curtain, Lithuanian director Arūnas Žebriūnas created one of the wildest rock operas of the decade. A mash-up of TOMMY, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and THE WICKER MAN filled with ecstatic hippie orgies in heaven, legions of female demons on horseback, rituals of mistletoe and rowan berries and an impish devil exiled to a small village to cause havoc
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