Apolinaras

When Henrikas Šablevičius started filming Lithuanian oddballs a professor a fortune teller racers and many others who fell short of the concept of the model citizen he invented a bizarre new genre of documentary biopic Characteristic of these portraits is a sense of mocking irony directed not at their subjects on the contrary the filmmakers affection for them is palpable but at the Soviet hero genre The subject of this film is Apolinaras a kindhearted policeman who even outwardly looks very unlike the ideological guardian of morals