Adam Wants to Be a Man

Adam Wants to Be a Man

83 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1959

In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds, lives Adam, a naive young man with no job and a lot of dreams. His closest friend is the Captain, an old sea wolf with many tales to tell about Singapore, Hawaii and other equally exotic and sunny places. Inspired by his stories, Adam manages to get a job in an emigration bureau and starts saving for his ticket to leave abroad.

Adam Wants to Be a Man

83 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1959

Adam Wants to Be a Man
In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds, lives Adam, a naive young man with no job and a lot of dreams. His closest friend is the Captain, an old sea wolf with many tales to tell about Singapore, Hawaii and other equally exotic and sunny places. Inspired by his stories, Adam manages to get a job in an emigration bureau and starts saving for his ticket to leave abroad.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Lithuanian Film Studio
Original title Adomas nori būti žmogumi
Directors Vytautas Žalakevičius
Writers Vytautas Sirijos Gira, Vytautas Žalakevičius

Cast

Stasys Petronaitis

as Petras

Juozas Miltinis

as Captain

Valerijonas Derkintis

as Petras' father

Vaclovas Blėdis

as «Amerikonas»

Donatas Banionis

as Dausa

Dana Rutkutė

as Blondinė

Janina Rudzinskaitė

as Liucės teta

Bronius Babkauskas

as «Tipas»

Algimantas Masiulis

as Kelneris

Vaclovas Muraška

as Valstietis