Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
Acting
Lorenzo Allchurch carries impossible weight for a child actor.
Production
Shot in Hungary, looks like a forgotten Soviet bloc nightmare.
Writing
Adapts György Dragomán's novel with bleak poetic restraint.
Director
Alex Helfrecht
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