Kids draw Hitler swinging from a tree. The Nazis are NOT amused. Chaos ensues.
With the Nazi occupation of Poland, several children in a village there become very unhappy and then get in deep trouble for a drawing of the Nazi Führer hanged from a tree.
Direction
Jędryka treats child actors with devastating restraint.
Writing
Draws horror from what adults almost say.
Director
Stanisław Jędryka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of few Polish children's films confronting occupation trauma directly; banned briefly for 'disturbing youth.'
The title refers to both the hanged portrait and the inverted moral world where children must parent adults.
PL
