At a whopping 246 minutes, Sergey Loznitsa’s feature documentary “Mr. Landsbergis” spans a duration longer than some non-fiction miniseries that pop up on streamers now. When looking at the film in totality, it’s perhaps possible to find natural divisions to demarcate chapters within the crucial three-year span from 1989 to 1991 when Lithuania establishes its independence from the USSR. But it doesn’t take much time spent with the film’s subject, Vytautas Landsbergis, to understand why the marathon-length is such a necessary component for relaying his story.

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