Olaf Lubaszenko

Director Matej Minac's debut feature relates the trials and tribulations faced by a Czech-Jewish family during World War II. It's also the real-life story of Nicholas Winton, a righteous gentile who saved hundreds of Jewish children from certain death at the hands of the Nazis. Moments of pure horror are balanced with heroic acts in this gripping saga of one ordinary man who took extraordinary risks.

Set in World War II Poland, this earnest drama stars Haley Joel Osment as Romek, a 12-year-old Jewish boy dispatched to the countryside to live with a family of Catholic peasants in the hope of saving him from the Nazis. Passed off as a nephew whose parents have fallen ill, Romek is befriended by a parish priest (Willem Dafoe) who tutors him on Catholic catechism. But the horrors of war are never far away as Romek adapts to his new life.

A large, happy family in Prague gardually disintegrates during HItler's campaign of conquest.