Overview
- Summary
- Romek is a Jewish boy from Krakow hiding out with a rural Catholic family in Poland in 1943. Romek soons finds himself in an ackward position with the other children of the village, who don't know whether to view the newcomer as a friend or rival. In a catechism class taught by a local priest, Romek meets Marka, a local thirteen-year-old whose romantic interest sparks some twists that include betrayal, murder, and revenge with religious overtones.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- [United States] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2005]
- Locale
- Poland
- Notes
-
Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.
Widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio).
Director of photography, Pawel Edelman ; art director, Ewa Skoczkowska ; editor, Dennis M. Hill ; music, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek ; costume designer, Jagna Janicka ; production designer, Mayling Cheng.
Haley Joel Osment, Willem Dafoe, Liam Hess, Richard Banel, Ola Frycz, Olaf Lubaszenko, Malgorzata Foremniak, Andrzej Grabowski, Wojciech Smolarz, Chiril Vahonin, Dorata Piasecka.
MPAA rating: R; for some violence and sexual content.
DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital.
In English with optional Spanish and French subtitles; closed-captioned.
Polish Film Festival, 2001: Best Screenplay (Yurek Bogayevicz).
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 0788856022
9780788856020 - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Keywords & Subjects
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- 2008-08-14 12:10:00
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