Hunger Strike Breakfast

Hunger Strike Breakfast

85 mins | Drama | Oct. 11, 2025

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?

Hunger Strike Breakfast

85 mins | Drama | Oct. 11, 2025

Hunger Strike Breakfast
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?
Producers Background Films, Tasse Film, M-Films
Original title Badautojų namelis
Directors Marija Pakrijauskaite, Lukas Lukoševičius, Karolis Kaupinis, Paulius Smitrius, Zivile Strazinskaite
Writers Karolis Kaupinis

Cast

Arvydas Dapsys

as Algirdas

Paulius Pinigis

as Sigis

Albinas Keleris

as Ikasala

Jelena Kirejeva

as Sveta

Aleksas Kazanavičius

as Sigis' Father

Birutė Mar

as Sigis' Mother

Kamilė Lebedytė

as Sigis' Wife

Eglė Mikulionytė

as Mykolas' wife

Vera Stasenia

as Raisa

Jūratė Martinaitytė

as Virginija

Audronis Rūkas

as Truck driver