The Great Water

Golemata voda
Macedonia, 2004. 90 mins. Picture This!

After the end of World War II, Young Lem, like so many war orphans, wanders aimlessly through the Macedonian countryside only to be caught by communist soldiers. They take him to the children’s orphanage, in fact, a labor camp where kids go to be ideologically “reprogrammed.” Lem endures terrible abuse at the hands of the camp leaders, but one day, a mysterious older boy appears at the orphanage. Lem develops a crush on him, and the two become partners in religiously tinged crime.

Director: Ivo Trajkov