The Child of Man

The film is set in the Latgale region of Latvia in the nineteen twenties. Boņuks is a boy of six. He lives with his family out in the country. He goes through the joys and the sorrows of childhood. He has fallen for Bigija, the girl next door. Bigija, though, is a grown woman. She already has a suitor named Aleksis. Boņuks makes plans to stop the marriage. The plans a child can make do not work. Bigija marries in the end and leaves with her husband. The boy finds it hard to accept. Finally he goes to a statue of Christ. He prays that things go well for Bigija in her new home. The film was adapted from a novel. It was shot in the Latgalian language. Andris Rudzinskis and Akvelina Livmane appear in the eighty nine minute film, a Latvian production Janis Streics finished in 1992.