From the recent DVD (restored film). Audio : Lithuanian. Subtitles : French. Quality DVD 576p.
https://www3.yggtorrent.do/torrent/film ... site+stuff
I have written a synopsis for the presentation, which is translated into English :
"The original Lithuanian title means
Last Day of Vacation. Vika, 11 years old, has spent her holidays at the seaside with her grandfather, an old fisherman. The girl is free, fearless, very much in tune with the surrounding nature, both liquid (the sea) and mineral (rocks). It's the last day of the holidays and Vika, whose father has to come and get her, would prefer not to leave. And while her grandfather leaves to pick up his nets, Vika, with her horn around her neck, blends in with the scenery and meets a bunch of boys who do not impress her much, and then a lonely boy, Romas, who has just arrived and does not know anyone. He meets Vika, who tells him her secret, a discovery she made in the rocks. Later, Romas betrays Vika in order to join the group of boys. Vika, disappointed, turns away from this child; finally, her father arrives, and the holidays, like childhood, come to an end...
The Girl with an Echo is based on the short story
Ekho by the Soviet author Yuri Naguibin (who contributed to the screenplay). It is Zebriunas' first feature film and his first masterpiece, a landmark film in Lithuanian cinema. Five years earlier, Zebriunas shot one of the four films in the sketch film
Gyvieji didvyriai (
The Living Heroes), already with the very talented director of photography Jonas Gricius and his unforgettable images. There was already a little girl in a white polka-dot dress, which was to be seen again later, twice, on the little Inga Mickyte, in
Death and the Cherry Tree (68) and in
Beauty (69), two films I ensured the presence of on Ygg. The film also featured the actor Bronius Babkauskas in the dark role of an armed soldier.
In addition to this film, which I ripped from the DVD, there is a 16-minute documentary (
A Memoriam) on the director's life and career, as well as the trailer for
La Belle, in separate files (also on the DVD, of course).
If you don't know anything about the wonderful Lithuanian poetic cinema of the Soviet period, this is one of its (restored) masterpieces."