Behind the Gates of Lukiškės Prison:
Past and Present
Duration
Year
Topics
Language
Lithuanian
13 min
2024
imprisonment
The feature “Behind the Gates of Lukiškės Prison: the Past and the Present” opens the door to one of the oldest prisons in Lithuania. In 2019, after over 100 years of operation, the prison was closed, and in 2021 the space was opened to the public as the “Lukiškės Prison 2.0” project. As the guides themselves say, the aim is “to make people want to come to the prison and not want to leave”. The prison now offers, among other things, guided tours.
Žygimantas, who spent six months in Lukiškės Prison, talks about the inhumane conditions of detention. “As they say, a dog gets used to being scolded,” he says during a tour, sharing his impressions after visiting a cell where he was imprisoned.
The story “Behind the Gates of Lukiškės Prison: the Past and the Present” was created during the mentorship programme of the audio festival “Banguoja”.
Author Goda Urbonaitė
Voices Žygimantas Liaukevičius, guides of Lukiškės Prison 2.0, former prison wardens Nikodemas Kairys and Martyna Gružauskaitė
Thanks to Dovilė Jonuškaitė-Zunkienė, Martynas Butkevičius, Ignas Juzokas, Jurgis Masilionis
Music Ignas Juzokas – Laiko durys
Mentors Adomas Zubė, Sigita Vegytė
Lecturers Laurynas Kamarauskas, Martyna Šulskutė, Rūta Dambravaitė
Goda Urbonaitė
She works as a freelance journalist and writes mainly about art and culture. She is comfortable with text and image – sometimes not only recording with a dictaphone, but also taking pictures. She is currently getting comfortable with sound and hopes to eventually make friends with it as well.
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