The Valley of the Bees
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5/17/1968Runtime
97 minsOverview
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship, Ondrej escapes from the Order when he is wrongly punished, and sets out for his former home. Arriving to discover his father to be dead, Ondrej now not only assumes control of his father's properties, but seeks to marry his former stepmother.
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A medieval reckoning: a man cast out in youth returns home hardened by years under a brutal monastic order, seeking to reclaim what was denied him through love and property. The film tracks how the past shapes the present with a sense of inevitability and moral complexity.
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