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The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley

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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.

Date: 03/01/1984

Rating: 6.5

Cast: Vlastimil Drbal, Josef Kemr, Libuše Geprtová, Jiří Schmitzer, Ilja Prachař, Stanislava Strobachová, Jiří Němeček, Zdeněk Dušek, Jiří Štěpnička, Bronislav Poloczek, Vlastimil Zavřel, Eva Kudláčková, Václav Sloup, Radka Fidlerová, Zdeňka Sajfertová, Rudolf Pellar, Ludmila Slancová, Karel Hlušička, Ladislav Křiváček, Ferdinand Krůta, Eva Salzmannová, František Kubíček, Vladimír Machoň, Tomáš Martínek, Jožka Stoklasa, Alexej Pyško, Miroslav Středa, Jiří Schmidt, Karel Knechtl, Igor Latta, Michael Tarant, Marie Bukovjanová, Ondřej Havelka, Inka Šecová, Bohumila Dolejšová, Mirko Musil

Vlastimil Drbal

Josef Kemr