Directed by Alexey Fedorchenko, 2018, Russia, 75 min
Ukraine, 1941: a six-year-old girl regains consciousness under a layer of black earth. Close-ups of milky-white body parts reveal she is in a mass grave.
This story of a six-year-old child could be called Daughter of Saul. All that happens is seen through her eyes, with no dialogue. What she sees through the very limited holes in walls where she is hiding are bits and pieces of the Nazis occupying the building in the town where the mass murder of Jews included her mother.
Befriended by a cat, she eventually must even sacrifice it to the Nazis, and that is the only time she shows the emotional toll her life imposes upon her.
Anna is played by Marta Kozlova
Left alone at nights in the Nazi headquarters where she is hiding, she forages for food and supplies needed for survival. By day, she quietly...
Ukraine, 1941: a six-year-old girl regains consciousness under a layer of black earth. Close-ups of milky-white body parts reveal she is in a mass grave.
This story of a six-year-old child could be called Daughter of Saul. All that happens is seen through her eyes, with no dialogue. What she sees through the very limited holes in walls where she is hiding are bits and pieces of the Nazis occupying the building in the town where the mass murder of Jews included her mother.
Befriended by a cat, she eventually must even sacrifice it to the Nazis, and that is the only time she shows the emotional toll her life imposes upon her.
Anna is played by Marta Kozlova
Left alone at nights in the Nazi headquarters where she is hiding, she forages for food and supplies needed for survival. By day, she quietly...
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