罗马尼亚新锐导演西尼沙德雷金继2002年以《Every Day God Kisses Us on the Mouth》勇夺鹿特丹影展金虎奖等国际肯定后,又一探讨社会人性的深刻力作。全片以风格独特的黑色魔幻影像,细腻勾勒出东欧历经战乱内斗、宗教对立、动荡政治等多重冲击之后的荒谬景况,一出出悲哀至极的人生惨剧,一幕幕民族与历史的创痛,都在影像的娓娓叙述中,触动人性底层最温暖的渴望。
Two fathers, a Romanian searching for his daughter who was forced into prostitution in Kosovo, and a Serbian seeking the body of his son killed in a car accident in Romania, meet on the river Danube. A boatman recounts the 200 year-old legend of Romanian peasants struggling unsuccessfully to move an old wooden church up the hill to their village at a time when building Orthodox churches was prohibited.