Set in 1989 at the end of the Communist era even as the Berlin Wall was falling, a humble train dispatcher who’s lived all his life in a small hamlet on the Czech side of the Czech-Polish border has been tormented by disturbing dreams about what happened to his ethnic German babysitter at the end of WW II. At the same time, a strange man of few to no words (is he mute?) in his mid 40s, shows up in the small hamlet with an old photograph and an ax. Much ensues…
Tomás Lunák
29 Sep 2011 (Czech Republic, Germany)tt1374985