Iserajta (film)

Iserajta
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Directed by	Leonardas Karaliunas
Written by	Vygantas Ramanauskas
Screenplay by	Daumantas Džačavankas Atėnė Vitkauskienė
Based on	Iserajta (opera) by Augustas Lankauskas
Produced by	Fridrikas Adleras Leonardas Karaliunas Oljantas Poskevičius
Starring	Danielis Česnauskis Karolis Ileikis Jadvyga Kavatokaitė Pransas Svereika Sara Čaprackaitė Aleksandras Lupeskas
Cinematography	Juozapas Brazinskas
Edited by	Linas Kuprys Matas Vyšniauskas
Music by	Marijona Baškevičiūtė
Production company	Studija Kurtai
Distributed by	Lokomotyva Visuel
Release dates	22 October 2022 (2022-10-22) (Montecara Film Festival)
Running time	tbd minutes
Country	Senria
Language	Ruttish
Budget	€tbd
Box office	€tbd

Iserajta is an upcoming 2022 Aucurian psychological horror film directed by Leonardas Karaliunas, with a screenplay by Daumantas Džačavankas and Atėnė Vitkauskienė. Starring Danielis Česnauskis, Karolis Ileikis, Jadvyga Kavatokaitė, Pransas Svereika, Sara Čaprackaitė, and Aleksandras Lupeskas, it was very loosely inspired by the opera of the same name by Augustas Lankauskas.

The film is scheduled to premiere in October 2022 at the 83rd Montecara Film Festival.

Plot

Juozapas Vytauskas (Česnauskis) is a white-collar employee of the Aucurian branch of Kléber-Oberlin SE, a fictional Werano-Gaullican mining conglomerate, introverted and indecisive by nature. He and his colleague Leandras Kaskevičius (Ileikis), who is also a college friend of Juozapas and the nephew of the Aucurian branch's director, are on a riverboat in the Aucurian state of Juoda; the two have been sent to the fictional village of Aušra ("dawn" in Ruttish), located in the southern region of the state where the Sythe-Juoda Rainforest begins to transition into the South Asterian Range, to secure the arrangements for resource exploration in the vicinity of the town.

Arriving in Aušra, the two deposit their belongings in the town's inn and meet with its mayor, Rimantas Murauskas (tbd). The mayor invites them to have dinner at his home; there, they meet his son Feliksas (Svereika) and niece Iserajta (Kavatokaitė). Following dinner, Feliksas and Iserajta invite Juozapas and Leandras to join them at the town's tavern to meet two of their longtime friends, Ieva Kiūnaitė (Čaprackaitė) and Nikiforas Petrauskas (Lupeskas). As the night progresses, the two outsiders begin to develop a rapport with the four locals, but notice that some of the other patrons of the bar are eyeing them excitedly or suspiciously. Feliksas says that some people in the town are excited by the jobs a mine might bring to the stagnant community, but others are suspicious due to the circumstances surrounding the failure of a previous mine in the community in 1902; the conversation moves elsewhere before Juozapas can ask what those circumstances were. Iserajta confirms that she was named for the opera, saying the name was chosen by her deceased mother.

The following morning, Juozapas and Leandras head to the town hall to begin working with Feliksas on the resource exploration agreement; while Juozapas feels awkward as a result of Feliksas's brusque and sardonic style of speaking, it plays off well with Leandras's good-natured and insouciant tendencies, and it quickly becomes clear that the two are developing a rapport. At the end of the work day, as Juozapas and Leandras prepare to return to the inn, Iserajta arrives at the town hall; Juozapas overhears a tense conversation between the two. Juozapas waits outside the building to ask Iserajta what happened. Iserajta explains that there used to be an additional member of her childhood friend group, Silvestras Abraitis, who Feliksas was particularly close to; that Silvestras drowned in the river while swimming near the edge of town; that Ieva witnessed Silvestras's death and told the others he was dragged away by the current; and that Feliksas does not trust Ieva's claims, and is frustrated by the fact that Iserajta and Nikiforas dismiss his suspicions.

As Juozapas and Leandras continue to work with Feliksas, Juozapas begins to feel slighted by Leandras's proximity to Feliksas. Returning to their hotel room, however, Leandras tells Juozapas that he has long been attracted to him; ...

Cast

• Danielis Česnauskis as Juozapas Vytauskas, sent to Aušra to secure a resource exploration agreement on behalf of his employer, reserved and indecisive
• Karolis Ileikis as Leandras Kaskevičius, friend and colleague of Juozapas, a nephew of the director of the mining company's Aucurian branch, easy-going but competent
• Jadvyga Kavatokaitė as Iserajta Murauskaitė, the niece of the mayor of Aušra, charming and intelligent
• Pransas Svereika as Feliksas Murauskas, the son of the mayor of Aušra and the town's municipal clerk, terse and acerbic
• Sara Čaprackaitė as Ieva Kiūnaitė, a close friend of Iserajta, sensitive and naive
• Aleksandras Lupeskas as Nikiforas Petrauskas, a friend of Iserajta and Feliksas who works as a mechanic, boisterous and hot-headed

The film also features tbd as Rimantas Murauskas, the mayor of Aušra; tbd as tbd, the owner of Aušra's inn; tbd as tbd, the owner of Aušra's tavern; tbd, tbd, tbd, tbd, and tbd as various residents of the town; and Hektoras Rudauskas as Silvestras Abraitis, a friend of Feliksas who drowned as a child.