A Soviet-Japanese tearjerker that'll wreck your whole week in 88 minutes flat.
A sad story about a little Japanese girl fighting heavy decease in a Russian summer camp on the Black Sea coast.
Direction
Donskoy's unsentimental honesty about children's suffering.
Production
1962 Soviet-Japanese coproduction—politically fascinating backdrop.
Director
Mark Donskoy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This Soviet-Japanese coproduction emerged during a brief thaw in relations, making its cross-cultural 'found family' narrative politically loaded.
Director Mark Donskoy was famous for his Gorky trilogy; this lesser-known work shares his signature unflinching gaze at childhood suffering.
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