| Brief Description: | Winner at the Cannes Film Festival, this powerful film is the story of
the friendship of Abraham, a volatile Jewish boy, and Ivan, an older
Christian boy, who flee 1930s Poland, where political tensions are
mounting, to the vast and perilous countryside. The runaways are
followed by Aaron, a young Communist outlaw, and Abraham's teenage
sister, Rachel, whose love for Aaron has estranged her from her
family. Expertly interweaving personal drama and and historical
perspective, the film centers on these four outcasts as they try to
detach themselves from a world hurtling into chaos and violence.
"Dazzling in its beauty, its audacity, its intelligence, its subtlety,
its freedom" (Claude Lanzmann, director of Shoah). Yiddish, Polish,
Russian and Gypsy dialog with English subtitles. Letterboxed. |
