Short film
Johnny Bakru
2014 · 25 min
A gentle, slightly eerie family tale seen through a child's wary eyes, mixing warmth with a creeping sense of unease.
- Directed by
- Ineke Houtman
- Genres
- Family, Drama, Comedy
- Starring
- Kees Boot, Dianyrha Goedhard, Peggy Sandaal
- Overview
- Nine year old Rose is living happily with her mother, four brothers and a limousine. Until the charming folk singer Johnny Ster walks into their live. Rose’s mother falls madly in love with Johnny, but Rose sees what nobody else seems to notice: Johnny is a ‘Bakru’, an evil spirit that is becharming her mother
- How it feels
- Warm, eerie, whimsical and tense. Measured and easy to follow.
- About
- Family, fate, love, betrayal
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Ineke Houtman
- Genres
- Family, Drama, Comedy
- Starring
- Kees Boot, Dianyrha Goedhard, Peggy Sandaal
