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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally released as a motion picture in 2001
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, Ramek meets Marka, a local thirteen-year-old whose romantic interest sparks some twists that include betrayal, murder, and revenge with religious overtones
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
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Polish Film Festival, 2001: Best Screenplay (Yurek Bogayevicz)