The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley
Pasáček z doliny
Drama
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.
1984-03-01
cs
Cast
Director
František Vláčil
Josef Kemr
Libuše Geprtová
Jiří Schmitzer
Ilja Prachař
Jiří Němeček
Zdeněk Dušek
Jiří Štěpnička as Blondýn
Bronislav Poloczek
Vlastimil Zavřel
Václav Sloup
Radka Fidlerová as Inn Keeper
Zdeňka Sajfertová
Rudolf Pellar
Karel Hlušička as Police Officer
Ladislav Křiváček
Eva Salzmannová
Alexej Pyško
Miroslav Středa
Ondřej Havelka as Blondýn (voice)
Mirko Musil as Police Officer (voice)