The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley
6.5
|Drama
1984-03-01
80 mins
The Plot
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.
Cast and Crew
Vlastimil Drbal
Pasáček
Josef Kemr
Libuše Geprtová
Jiří Schmitzer
Ilja Prachař
Stanislava Strobachová
Jiří Němeček
Zdeněk Dušek
Jiří Štěpnička
Blondýn
Bronislav Poloczek
Vlastimil Zavřel
Eva Kudláčková
Václav Sloup
Radka Fidlerová
Inn Keeper
Zdeňka Sajfertová
Rudolf Pellar
Ludmila Slancová
Turist
Karel Hlušička
Police Officer
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
Blondýn (voice)
Inka Šecová
Inn Keeper (voice)
Bohumila Dolejšová
Turist (voice)