If the Seed Doesn't Die

If the Seed Doesn't Die

2010 · 113 min · ★ 5.3 · Drama

Two fathers, a Romanian searching for his daughter who was forced into prostitution in Kosovo, and a Serbian seeking the body of his son killed in a car accident in Romania, meet on the river Danube. A boatman recounts the 200 year-old legend of Romanian peasants struggling unsuccessfully to move an old wooden church up the hill to their village at a time when building Orthodox churches was prohibited.

Directed by Siniša Dragin

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