Acting
Child performances that feel painfully, beautifully real.
Direction
Kocka captures post-communist childhood with unflinching honesty.
Director
Ľubomír Kocka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Slovakia's first years of independence, it captures a nation and childhood in painful transition. The poverty isn't aestheticized—it's just life.
Director Kocka never made another feature. This one's his entire cinematic legacy, and somehow that fits perfectly.
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