Among the Grass

“Among the Grass" 

“Žalumose"

(2012, 29 min., Documentary, Nominum)

Directed by: Ramunė Rakauskaitė
Screenplay by Ramunė Rakauskaitė
Produced by: Arūnas Matelis
Director of photography: Eitvydas Doškus
Music: Domas Strupinskas
Editing: Valdas Misevičius, Kostas Radlinskas

About the film:

This is a story about the extraordinary destiny and vocation woman: for ones – wizards, witches, for others – a savior, witch using the herbs and incantations to cure the most severe ill people. These three herbalist, today Avicenna, itself emerging from a painful and tragic life fractures, grasses found salvation from the body and the soul hardships and loneliness. They live in harmony with nature, which hoards lies many secrets, no less than that of pharmaceutical laboratories.