The film follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies, and the Boy is on his own, wandering through the country-side, from village to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers through extraordinary brutality meted out by the ignorant, superstitious peasants and he witnesses the terrifying violence of the efficient, ruthless soldiers, both Russian and German. When the war ends, The Boy has been changed forever.

Cast / Petr Kotlár , Harvey Keitel , Stellan Skarsgård , Udo Kier , Julian Sands , Barry Pepper , Aleksei Kravchenko , Zdeněk Pecha , Michaela Doležalová , Lech Dyblik , Jitka Čvančarová , Júlia Valentová , Petr Vaněk , Nina Shunevych , Alla Sokolova    Writer / Václav Marhoul    Costumes / Helena Rovná    DoP / Vladimír Smutný    Editor / Luděk Hudec    Make-Up / Ivo Strangmüller    Set Designer / Jan Vlasák    Sound / Jakub Čech , Pavel Rejholec    Story / Jerzy Kosiński

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