The History Student (2015)

Directed by

Graham Jones

Genre

drama film

Country

Poland

Runtime

1h 10m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A seven-year-old boy from Dublin goes to rural Poland for a summer holiday. His mother tells him to speak only Polish. When he asks where aliens fit into nature, it brings back memories from her own childhood.

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What happens

The History Student is a 2015 Irish-Polish film directed by Graham Jones about a seven-year-old boy from Dublin who is spending a rural summer holiday in his mother's native Poland and on strict instructions to speak only that country's language - when he finds the words to ask where aliens fit into nature, it stirs memories of her own childhood when the answer was clear. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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