Release Date: 2001-08-01
Overview: 13-year-old Bartek tries desperately to hide the fact that his father beats him. Lonely and with no support from his mother or his school, tyrannized by his soccer coach, the boy finds his only friend in an old dying stray dog.
Rating: 7.8 / 10
Bartosz Idczak
as Bartek Idczak
Mariusz Jakus
as Andrzej, Coach
Marek Bielecki
as Stefan, Father
Katarzyna Bargiełowska
as Hanka, Mother
Tomasz Rolinski
as Platfus, Brother
Sławomir Fabicki - Director
Sławomir Fabicki - Screenplay
Tomasz Stefaniak - Producer
Bogumił Godfrejów - Director of Photography
This is a short film about child abuse. The child actor is very engaging, extremely natural, very well led by the director. The cinematography gives everything a grimy, realistic, post-communist bleak...