r-hehl

I saw this film today at the Braunschweig International Film Festival and I was deeply moved.

The story is about the self chosen responsibility of a boy for his two younger siblings because their widowed mother could not feed them. When he realized that her mother wants to move them back to the countryside, he spoke up for himself and the two younger siblings because he saw the importance of going to school.

Left alone by the mother, he is torn between earning money, going to school and caring for his younger siblings. The film shows the daily difficulties surviving in a yurt even when there is little heat and little to eat. A wonderful film with excellent characters.

I have seen this movie recently at the 35th Braunschweig Filmfestival. I like movies that tell new stories and this movie cerrtainly tells a story I have not seen before. Furthermore the movie is very good creating a lot of suspense by revealing the story bit by bit. At the beginning the main character is released from prison in Poland and wants to find a woman with whom she shares something. That woman is hiding from her past on a small island that belongs to Island. Most of the story occurs there and it shows the rough life a polish community lives there. Most of them work in a fish processing plant. Slowly we learn what these two women share. This creates a lot of suspense. With every answer new questions come up. The actors play very well and it is unfortunate that the director of the film is no longer with us. He died shortly after the film was completed.