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Edges of the Lord (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
Poland ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Yurek Bogayevicz

Written By:
Yurek Bogayevicz (written by)

Actors:
Haley Joel Osment ..... Romek
Willem Dafoe ..... Priest
Liam Hess ..... Tolo
Richard Banel ..... Vladek
Olaf Lubaszenko ..... Gniecio
Malgorzata Foremniak ..... Manka
Andrzej Grabowski ..... Kluba
Chiril Vahonin ..... Robal
Ola Frycz ..... Maria
Dorota Piasecka ..... Ela Kluba
Wojciech Smolarz ..... Pyra
Marek Weglarski ..... Max
Edyta Jurecka ..... Sara
Ryszard Ronczewski ..... Batylin
Krystyna Feldman ..... Wanda

Synopsis:

A Jewish boy struggling to survive the Nazi pogrom during World War II finds an unexpected ally in this period drama. As Nazi troops invade Poland, a young boy from Krakow named Romek (Haley Joel Osment) is given to friends by his parents, who smuggle him out of town in hopes of saving him from the advancing armies. Romek is taken to a rural community, where a sympathetic farming family has agreed to put him up, under the pretense that he's a nephew whose parents have fallen ill. Thanks to his blonde hair and blue eyes, Romek is able to blend in with the largely Catholic townsfolk, though a few of the neighbors become quite suspicious when Romek appears not to know elementary prayers and church procedures. The priest (Willem Dafoe) of the neighborhood's church becomes aware of Romek's secret, and is sympathetic to the boy's problems, so in secret, he coaches Romek in basic catechism, while remaining mindful of the lad's Jewish heritage. But while Romek is getting better at fooling others into believing he's Catholic, he can't escape the signs of the devastation that the Nazi onslaught has wrought against his people.

Polish 12 year-young city Jew Romek gets a crash-course in Catholicsim from his daddy ('stay hanging by your arms till your prayers are perfect') so he can be sent away and escape deportation (Auschwitz?) hiding in the country where the clergy found a host, Gniecio's simple peasant family, posing as their city relative. Gniecio's eldest son Vladek proves rather tyrannical but no brighter then gullible junior Tollo, who takes a role play in catechism class to 'become' a Last Supper character, in his case Jesus, to the extreme, even training for a crucifixion from a tree. Neighbor Batylin and his wife are executed by the Nazis when their illegally kept pig is found. Kluba plays a dirty trick when Gniecio tries to sell his in the city; his son is as problematic for the boys, who meanwhile play involving a single girl-playmate, Maria, who takes Romek in when he's stupidly thrown out by his widowed host by mistake. The horror of war itself suddenly shows its ugly head again, big time and in weird ways with unforeseen consequences...

A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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