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This film is based on a Soviet propaganda story (most likely false) about “Young Pioneer” (Soviet equivalent to the "Boy Scout") Morozov who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers, even at the expense of family ties. In the Soviet Union this story was a subject of many books, songs, plays, a symphonic poem, opera and also the basis of Bezhin Meadow, an unreleased film from 1937 that was directed by Sergei Eisenstein.
In our film 75 years later we ...

Director: Laila Pakalniņa

Keywords: mother's death | optimistic views of the future | being neglected | breastfeeding mother | loss of humanity | father-son conflict | gods | chicken | hero | ringing the church bells | View all »