Based on a Soviet propaganda story about Young Pioneer (the Soviet equivalent of a Boy Scout) Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers, at any expense. In our film, 75 years later, we call him little Janis. He is a Pioneer who lives on the Soviet collective farm “Dawn”. His father is an enemy of the farm (and the Soviet system) and plots against it. Little Janis betrays his father; his father takes revenge upon his son. Who then in this old Soviet tale is good and who is bad? This film reveals that a distorted brain is always dangerous. Even today.
Laila Pakalnina
Writer, Director
Antons Georgs Grauds
Little Janis
Vilis Daudziņš
Little Janis' Father
Wiktor Zborowski
Karl Ivanovitš
Āris Rozentāls
Karl Ivanovitš (voice)
Andris Keišs
Jekabs Kalnins
Liena Šmukste
Mirdza Ozolina
Ģirts Krūmiņš
Joosep Ozolin
Rūdolfs Plēpis
Narrator
Ivars Brakovskis
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