Little Crusader

Little Jan, the only descendant of the knight Bořek, has run away from home. His anxious father sets out to find him but his despair at the fruitless search gradually starts to overpower him. Václav Kadrnka has turned out a stylistically well-contoured adaptation of the poem "The Little Crusader of Svojanov" by Jaroslav Vrchlický, where he employs a taciturn film form in order to encourage our imagination to engage in a poetic, cinematic pilgrimage. As the film progresses, Bořek loses his bearings and focus, sinking into despair until he, in turn, becomes the rescue project of a strapping younger fighter.

Keywords

  • costume film
  • family
  • history
  • literary adaptation
  • road movie
  • Storyline: Sons
  • Streaming Europe

Actors

  • Karel Roden
  • Aleš Bílík
  • Matous John
  • Jana Semerádová
  • Jiří Soukup

Director

  • Václav Kadrnka

Drama


1h 28min


16+

CS


EN

FR

DE

Italy
Czech Republic
Slovakia
2017
Little Jan, the only descendant of the knight Bořek, has run away from home. His anxious father sets out to find him but his despair at the fruitless search gradually starts to overpower him.

Little Jan, the only descendant of the knight Bořek, has run away from home. His anxious father sets out to find him but his despair at the fruitless search gradually starts to overpower him.


Václav Kadrnka has turned out a stylistically well-contoured adaptation of the poem "The Little Crusader of Svojanov" by Jaroslav Vrchlický, where he employs a taciturn film form in order to encourage our imagination to engage in a poetic, cinematic pilgrimage.


As the film progresses, Bořek loses his bearings and focus, sinking into despair until he, in turn, becomes the rescue project of a strapping younger fighter.

Cast & Crew