The opening-credits sequence of Jonas Ohman and Vincas Sruoginis's documentary The Invisible Front fetishizes evidential materials: files, folders, photos, documents, passports, envelopes. This emphasis turns out to be more than window dressing: To quote the film's narrator, the historical drama depicted here — the Lithuanian resistance to Soviet invasion during the 1940s — was one in which "the control of information was more important than armed conflict." Befitting a doc about a data-intensive struggle, the movie benefits from a wealth of resources — interview subjects, archival TV footage, context-setting narration — for its telling of the story of the Forest Brothers, an underground resistance movement of Lithuanians, many of them young stude...
- 11/5/2014
- Village Voice
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