小战士勒内 René va alla guerra

Synopsis

Little René lives in a house in the woods of Slovenia. He spends his summer holidays playing alone, fantasising about defending the national borders from an enemy attack. The child designs and builds wooden toy weapons and then immerses himself in nature, hiding in abandoned bunkers from the Second World War and staging imaginative battles.

Director’s statement

René va alla guerra is a meditation on imagination and the coming of age of a child who, starting from what remains of the battlefields of the Second World War and contemporary wars seen through the media, as he goes out exploring and tests his own manual skills, internalises and reworks a playful interpretation of a tragedy perpetrated by the grown-ups.