The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 1, 1984

Original language

Czech

Spoken languages

Czech

Countries

Czechoslovakia

Production

Filmové studio Barrandov

Cast

Bohumila Dolejšová,Zdeňka Sajfertová,Vlastimil Drbal,Jiří Schmidt,Zdeněk Dušek,Ludmila Slancová,Tomáš Martínek,Josef Kemr,Mirko Musil,Václav Sloupand 26 more

Director

František Vláčil

Writer

Jiří Křižan,Jiří Fried,Ladislav Fuks,Ladislav Nezdařil,Václav Erben

Cinematography

František Uldrich

Music

Milan Dvořák

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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