剧情介绍
A group of protesters, from all around Lithuania, gather at the Television Tower to protect it from approaching Soviet tanks and paratroopers.
A group of people -students, an elderly couple, a violinist searching for her husband (taken by the KGB), anxious parents, a priest and others- find themselves in the same place, on the evening of January 12, 1991. They are defending their newly-established freedom against the Soviet occupiers. They position themselves at the Television Tower where the Soviet troops are trying to take control of communications (under the orders of Mikhail Gorbachev). The protesters are unarmed. New friendships are formed. But soon the tanks and troops advance and threaten the singing protesters.
作為首個宣佈獨立的加盟共和國,立陶宛自然成為戈爾巴喬夫維持聯盟團結的一大敵人,彈壓也就在所不免。而電影也對戈爾巴喬夫進行了批判;電影整體還算出色,紀錄映像甚至比劇情部分要好;各個家庭不經意的總動員成就了「家」與「國」的共同抗命,但命運卻又同途殊歸……