Algimantas Puipa (b. 1951, Antaliepte, Lithuania) is a living classic of Lithuanian cinematography. After successful amateur beginnings, he graduated in 1974 from Moscow's VGIK and began working for the Lithuanian Film Studio. From the very outset, he has focused in his work chiefly on adaptations of domestic and world literature, for which he has won a number of awards at international festivals – in particular, his film about the post-war collectivisation of Lithuanian rural areas Eternal Light (Amžinoji šviesa, 1987). Over the last fifteen years, visitors to Karlovy Vary would have had the chance to see four of Puipa's most important films: Woman and Her Four Men (Moteris ir keturi jos vyrai, 1983), The Beaches Are Sandy Too (Ir ten krantai smeleti, 1991), Wolf-Teeth Necklace (Vilko dantu karoliai, 1997) and Elze's Life (Elze íš gilios, 1999).
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