Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Gates to Paradise (1968)


Avala Film
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
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A self-proclaimed prophet-teenager leads a large group of children on a march from Europe to Jerusalem in the so-called "Children's Crusade". They are joined by a former crusader turned monk who hears confessions of various characters along the way. We learn in flashbacks that these teens are being manipulated by a homosexual count for his own desires. The result is an uneven mixture of teenage sexual melodrama and historical fiction.

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