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Little Angel, Make Me Happy

1993 · 88 min

This is a stark and harrowing experience of childhood resilience against overwhelming historical brutality.

Overview
A social drama. The period of the Second World War in Turkmenia. In Central Asia the deportation program of the Soviet citizens of German origin begins. All adults are taken to camps in Siberia and children are put in orphanages. The six-year old Georg hides from the Red soldiers and finds himself left almost alone in his, now abandoned, German village. The horrifying reality sets in. The daily routine of his life is shocking: What to eat? How to take care of his sick friend Yashka? How to bury Aunt Lisa? Under these inhuman circumstances, the soul of Georg remains miraculously uncorrupt – he still believes in Little Angel from a children’s song, and he makes a nest for it in a tree. A miracle takes place: sometimes a glass of milk is left for Georg in the nest; sometimes an ear of corn...

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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • war
  • isolation
  • trauma
  • morality
Places
  • small town
  • wilderness
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror4
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight10

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Uzmaan Saparov
Written by
Lyudmila Papilova, Uzmaan Saparov
Starring
Vladimir Frank, Tatyana Shraiber, Aleksandr Shraiber, Agamurad Dzhanmukhamedov, Lidiya Brestel, Ata Dovletov, Murat Annageldyyev
Runtime
88 min
Country
Turkmenistan
Languages
German, Russian, Turkmen

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