The Omen meets German rural poverty — this kid makes Damien look like a Boy Scout.
Eleven-year-old Holgi and his older brother Max live on a neglected farm after their parents’ disappearance. Max supports them by working for older women. When Rosa enters their lives and makes Max a father, Holgi attempts to kill her. Evidence of his past crimes also emerges.
Acting
Prochorowski's chillingly blank malevolence
Direction
Knarr's unflinching gaze at rural German decay
Production
The farm itself becomes a character of neglect
Director
Günter Knarr
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 1990s-2000s German 'Ostalgie' horror examining decay in post-reunification rural areas, though this East German setting predates the Wall's fall.
Director Knarr reportedly cast Prochorowski after the child actor's unsettling stillness in auditions; he never acted again after this role.
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