Lazarus
German title: Der Junge mit den traurigen Augen
Original title: Lazarus
Original title: Lazarus
Youth drama – Poland
Production year: 1993
Movie length: 87 minutes
Production year: 1993
Movie length: 87 minutes
Director: Waldemar Dziki
Writer: Cezary Harasimowicz
Cinematograph: Jaroslaw Zamojda
Music: Michal Lorenc
Writer: Cezary Harasimowicz
Cinematograph: Jaroslaw Zamojda
Music: Michal Lorenc
Movie description:
This unusual drama with a message, set in England and filmed entirely in English, concerns a wealthy British couple of Polish descent who adopt a son because they are unable to have children. However the illegal adoption process they go through involves paying an exorbitant fee to an underground broker, and the child they receive is not the Indian infant promised, but a strangely hardened 10-year-old from Mozambique. Desperately disappointed with their »purchase«, the new parents nonetheless make fumbling efforts to make the child Lazar feel at home. But Lazar is not receptive, and behaves more like a threatened and hunted animal each day in his affluent surroundings. In time, the couple are able to communicate with the boy to discover that he saw his family die and was forced to accompany the army, where along with other children he was trained to execute prisoners in mass killings. Lazar ultimately develops the will to try to become a child again, but he feels constantly endangered by the wealthy new world around him. One day he runs away, stealing a weapon from his favorite new grandfather. When police rounds up of him, it looks like the boy tries to defend himself.
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