Lithuanian Folklore: the Origins [ENGLISH SUBTITLES] Vakar ir visados (1984)

This movie about the roots of Lithuanian folk customs was filmed in Lithuanian Film Studio in 1982 but it was banned from cinemas until 1984 because people in charge of Central USSR television regarded it as “too ethnic“. The director of this film Gytis Lukšas recounts: “At the time when Lithuania’s national broadcaster was not allowed to show even distaffs with traditional ornaments (because the Central Committee of the Communist Party regarded all ethnic items as idolization of the feudal-bourgeois past)