Jonas Vaitkus

Jonas Vaitkus (born 20 May 1944) is a Lithuanian theatre and film director, and academic.

[1] From 1969 to 1974, he studied at the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinema in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

[3] He has directed several films, including Utterly Alone (Vienui vieni; 2004) and A Thrush, a Green Bird (Drozd - ptakha zelyonaya; 1990).

In February 2018, following the worldwide spread of the Me Too movement Vaitkus was publicly accused of sexual harassment or assault by some of his former students.

He has denied the allegations, claiming instead that this is a defamation campaign carried out by Russian propaganda.