Hunger Strike Breakfast

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2024 | fiction | 90 min. | Lithuania

Having lost their jobs due to a Soviet takeover of Lithuanian Television in 1991, its employees declare a hunger strike in protest. Initial enthusiasm is slowly replaced by frustration about a single question – how long can they hold physical and emotional hunger?

Team

Director & writer Karolis Kaupinis

Production company M-Films (Lithuania), Background Films (Czech Republic), Tasse (Latvia)

Producer Marija Razgutė

Co-producers Mikulas Novotny, Aija Berzina

Associate producer Brigita Beniušytė

Cinematographer Simonas Glinskis

Production designer Sigita Šimkūnaitė

Supported by Lithuanian Film Centre, Czech Film Fund, National Film Centre of Latvia, Creative Europe MEDIA, Lithuanian National Radio and Television, Eurimages