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The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley

Mar 1, 1984 · 1h 20m
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Drama

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In 1947 by the Beskid mountains, the traces of war still linger, destroyed tanks dispersed throughout the farmland creating an eerie backdrop. This film follows a ten-year-old boy and the strange visions he encounters, his world of fantasy exacerbated with ample time, space, and a lack of companionship or guidance. We see the adults that influence and dominate his life, for better or for worse. Surreal and packed with an excellent study of human emotions and motivations compounded by their rural, isolated vacuum of a town, this is a timeless and severely underrated film from a brilliant Czech director.

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CAST

Vlastimil Drbal
Pasáček
Josef Kemr
Libuše Geprtová
Jiří Schmitzer
Ilja Prachař
Stanislava Strobachová
Jiří Němeček
Zdeněk Dušek
Directed by František Vláčil

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Status
Released
Original language
CS
Budget
—
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Production
Filmové studio Barrandov
Country
XC

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