It Burns!

It Burns!

"Think if we killed a person!"

2002 · 81 min · Drama, Crime, Family

Two girls think that maybe they burned down an old house in the forest, when they secretly went to smoke a cigarette, but what does the burned house have to do with a madman named Reine and a dragon? Maybe there is more to this mystery than the girls know.

Directed by Mikael Marcimain · Written by Pernilla Oljelund

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