- Occupation
Director - Country
Lithuania
Sargsyan Marat
Father
Vidas Zenonas Antonovas has been recorded in the book of the most interesting criminals of Soviet Union. He stole around a million rubles 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“. 20 years of his time he did 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 lifeabout. It is a love story of one family. There are neither romantic moments nor miracules changes. But there is a strong potential to change our understanding about what happy and loving family is or could be.
Vidas Zenonas Antonovas has been recorded in the book of the most interesting criminals of Soviet Union. He stole around a million rubles 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“. 20 years of his time he did 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 lifeabout. It is a love story of one family. There are neither romantic moments nor miracules changes. But there is a strong potential to change our understanding about what happy and loving family is or could be.
Marat Sargsyan was born in Kirovakan, Armenia in 1978. Already at the age of 13 he 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 with different TV projects, also made more than ten award wining music videos and in 2005 entered Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, where he got Master Degree in TV and Film Directing in 2011.
"28 Article”, fiction, 2’, dir. Marat Sargsyan, Lithuania“Love”, documentary, ’6, dir. Marat Sargsyan, Lithuania“Once we lived in the mountains”, fiction 20’,dir. Marat Sargsyan, Lithuania“Lernavan”, fiction, 24’, dir. Marat Sargsyan, Lithuania (5 international prizes)