''Nekviesta meilė'' (English: ''Uninvited Love'') was a

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series.LNK „Nekviesta meilė“ – populiariausias serialas Lietuvoje

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, January 10, 2007 Its director was assisted by Saulius Balandis and Kristina Kunčinaitė. It run for 4 seasons (381 episodes) during 2007–2009 on the LNK TV channel."LNK „Nekviesta meilė“ ruošiasi atsisveikinti"
''Kauno diena'', June 15, 2009 Its sequel started in 2010 on

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channel under the title ' ("Eternal Feelings"), with the same director. Initially the advertised title was ''Ir visgi aš myliu'' ("And Yet I Love"). The series revolves around the family of businessman Andrius Žvinys (), son-in-law of a

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member, corrupt and powerful man Antanas Baronas (

Adolfas Večerskis Adolfas Večerskis (born 4 September 1949 in Kretinga), is a Lithuanian movie and stage actor, director and translator. He began his career in films, but later chose to play mainly on the stage. Večerskis, his wife Viola, and their younger daugh ...

), and his wife, a pop star Mēta Baronaitė-Žvinienė ( Inga Jankauskaitė), which involves love, jealousy, and betrayal, money and power. One may recognize the contemporary realities of Lithuania in the series. As '' Kauno diena'' writes, "hundreds of thousands of minutes of love, kisses, tears, hugs. Weddings, funerals, meetings and breakups. Bruises, gunshots, fraud, failed businesses and broken marriages. Runaway brides and uncaught abusers. It won Sidabrinė gervė 2008 (Golden Crane) awards, in best TV film and best film scenario categories. On the occasion of the opening of the fourth season of the series, a special TV show, a humorous award ceremony "Golden Baubles" was held, at which the "Golden Chickens" (a parody of the "Golden Cranes") were generously given out to the actors or the characters of the play. For example, Adolfas Večerskis received the Frankenstein Prize "for surpassing Arūnas Valinskas in resurrection" and actress 's character Angelina Baronienė received the Phrase of the Year Award (this phrase cannot be quoted).„Nekviestai meilei“ – „Auksinių baublių“ apdovanojimai
''diana.lt, January 30, 2009 The sequel was nominated for Sidabrinė gervė 2010 awards in best TV film category.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nekviesta meilė 21st-century Lithuanian television series Lithuanian television soap operas