The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley
Pasáček z doliny
Release: 1984-03-01
·Runtime: 80m
·★ 6.5
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.
Production Countries
Czechoslovakia
Production Companies
Filmové studio Barrandov
Cast
Karel Hlušička
as Police Officer
Libuše Geprtová
Jiří Němeček
Zdeněk Dušek
Bronislav Poloczek
Vlastimil Zavřel
Jiří Schmitzer
Zdeňka Sajfertová
Miroslav Středa
Rudolf Pellar
Alexej Pyško
Ilja Prachař
Josef Kemr
Václav Sloup
Ladislav Křiváček
Jiří Štěpnička
as Blondýn
Radka Fidlerová
as Inn Keeper
Eva Salzmannová
Ondřej Havelka
as Blondýn (voice)
