The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley backdrop
The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley poster
Trailer
The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley
6.5
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1h 20m
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1984
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Released
Overview
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
Vlastimil Drbal poster
Vlastimil Drbal
Pasáček
Josef Kemr poster
Josef Kemr
Libuše Geprtová poster
Libuše Geprtová
Jiří Schmitzer poster
Jiří Schmitzer
Ilja Prachař poster
Ilja Prachař
Stanislava Strobachová poster
Stanislava Strobachová
Jiří Němeček poster
Jiří Němeček
Zdeněk Dušek poster
Zdeněk Dušek
Jiří Štěpnička poster
Jiří Štěpnička
Blondýn
Bronislav Poloczek poster
Bronislav Poloczek
Vlastimil Zavřel poster
Vlastimil Zavřel
Eva Kudláčková poster
Eva Kudláčková
Václav Sloup poster
Václav Sloup
Radka Fidlerová poster
Radka Fidlerová
Inn Keeper
Zdeňka Sajfertová poster
Zdeňka Sajfertová
Rudolf Pellar poster
Rudolf Pellar
Ludmila Slancová poster
Ludmila Slancová
Turist
Karel Hlušička poster
Karel Hlušička
Police Officer
Ladislav Křiváček poster
Ladislav Křiváček
Ferdinand Krůta poster
Ferdinand Krůta

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