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The cow

Karel Kachyna | Czech Republic | 1993 | 86' | | IFFR 1994

Television film about the adventure that can even ambush the most everyday life. Young Adam is a loner growing up in a small village early this century. He is the son of an unmarried woman with a ‘dubious reputation’, as that is called. He is very young, but he has fought all his life against his tragic fate. His cow is his most important possession; apart from that he is destitute. But with a cow you can survive. He meets a girl who also has a checkered past and out of necessity has a relationship with her.The relationship develops into a loving one and the film then turns into a reflection on the meaning of human life, dependence on nature and love, and about people’s will to lead an apparently senseless life.Krava is a realistic and stylistically pure drama with poetic undertones and a great feeling for couleur locale.

Film details

Country of production
Czech Republic
Year
1993
Festival edition
IFFR 1994
Length
86"
Medium/Format
35mm

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