LEADER 02192ngm a22002897a 4500005 20161125134751.0 005 hubpceu 007 v| |||||| 008 121017b########xx#|||############m|lit|| 003 hubpceuo 099 FL Record |f1021 100 Matelis, Arunas, |edirector. 242 Before Flying Back to Earth 245 Pries parskrendant I Zeme 300 DVD-ROM (52 min.) 337 Moving image 500 Duration: 00:52:00 520 After his daughter survived eight months of treatment for leukaemia, the Lithuanian filmmaker Arunas Matelis did not turn his back on the hospital. He filmed the kids in the leukaemia ward in Vilnius during their day-to-day routine, without becoming sentimental. For the parents, their worst nightmare has come true, but what do the children themselves think? A life among medicine and tubes does not prevent them from just carrying on. Their adaptability is incredible. One of the mothers says her son has not grown dejected in hospital, because he has gotten used to it and does not know any better. The children practise karate or dream of getting hamburgers and Coke instead of the same old cabbage soup. The future is often brought up, as if it were not finite: they hope they will not turn blond when their hair grows back, or they want to become a doctor, "but not in the leukaemia ward." Before Flying Back to the Earth is interlaced with black-and-white pictures showing the children in the middle of a smile, yawn or gesture, momentarily freezing time in this thorough documentary that does not deal with death, but with life. 542 |fCopyright by Studio Nominum 655 4 Documentary films 260 Lithuania : |bHaag, Gerd ; Matelis, Arunas, |c2005. 041 lit |jeng 952 |00 |10 |40 |50 |70 |8FL |990907FL |bFL |d2016-11-25 |l0 |r2016-11-25 |w2016-11-25 |yDVD-ROM 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6FL_RECORD_1021_000000000000000 |70 |8FL |9146203FL |bFL |d2019-02-27 |l0 |oFL Record 1021 |pHU_OSA_00002703.mp4 |r2021-11-04 |w2019-02-27 |yDIGIFILM |zAccess Copy, MP4 format |cAudio Visual 920 01 2Xb5zaoz 966 True |bHU_OSA_00002703 |cDigitally Anywhere / With Registration