The boy is captured by the army, forced to drink alcohol, tied to horses and dragged to the German camp, with a note saying that he's a Jew. This scene prompted the second largest walk-out of the audience. The priest gives the child to a paedophile who repeatedly tortures the boy.Īfter his next escape the boy is seduced by a nymphomaniac who is outraged the child cannot satisfy her urges and takes revenge on the Boy by copulating with a goat. The boy is later saved from the Gestapo by a perverted priest, played by Harvey Keitel. In Venice, the first audience exodus was triggered when a jealous man in the movie's second town takes a spoon to gouge out the eyeballs of a teenager who has taken too much interest in his wife.Ī nearby cat then devours the eyeballs on the floor. In the first town where he resides, the peasants believe he is the devil incarnate and he is taken in as a slave by the local doctor, who later buries him up to his neck in the ground in an apparent bid to save the Boy from disease. Wherever he goes to seek shelter, so follow scenes of utter depravity. This is just the beginning of the relentless barbarism which will be inflicted upon the boy, played by Petr Kotlar. In the opening scene, the boy's pet ferret is taken from him, doused in fuel and burned alive. He has been sent to live with his grandmother during the ruthless persecution of the Holocaust in German-occupied Eastern Europe.īut the grandmother soon dies and the Boy is left to wander the countryside alone. Shot in black and white, it portrays the story of a young Jewish boy who is trying to reunite with his father by travelling through Nazi-occupied Europe.
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