Synopsis
The debut feature of master filmmaker
František Vláčil,
The White Dove’s straightforward narrative belies complex themes and striking visual imagery. A young boy injures and then nurses a white dove back to health so that it can continue its journey home. Echoing
Ken Loach’s film
Kes, and with music by the great
Zdenek Liška, the film emerges as a work of great poetry and humanism.
