Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
Acting
Lorenzo Allchurch carries impossible weight for a child actor.
Production
Shot in Hungary, looks like a forgotten Soviet bloc nightmare.
Writing
Adapts György Dragomán's novel with bleak poetic restraint.
Director
Alex Helfrecht
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Hungarian-Romanian author György Dragomán's semi-autobiographical novel, drawing from his childhood under Ceaușescu's Romania.
Directors Helfrecht and Tittel are partners in life and film; this was their only feature together before splitting professionally.
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