A Czech Western? Yes, really. And it's about greed, not gunfights.
Based on a Jack London story, this is another attempt at a Western spectacle - after the short story triptych The Canyon of Gold - about a teenage boy who, after his father's death, lives in a gold-mining town. He even witnesses a cruel fight between two cowboys over a supposed treasure.
Acting
Jiří Strach's raw, watchful teenage stillness.
Direction
Sirový's anti-romantic dismantling of Western myth.
Cinematography
Bleached, unforgiving landscapes that judge everyone.
Director
Zdenek Sirový
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Czechoslovakia's final communist years, this Western critiques American individualism while secretly mourning its own suppressed frontier spirit.
Sirový's second Jack London adaptation after 1974's 'The Canyon of Gold'—he was obsessed with London's Darwinian cruelty.
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