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Little Secrets

Perl oder Pica

2006

Set in Luxembourg's mining region in the 1960s and 70s, this drama follows a boy growing up amid family tensions and social change, keeping the small, painful secrets of childhood. A coming-of-age drama.

Why it’s here

Pol Cruchten’s Luxembourgish-language childhood drama is rooted in a local novel and a specifically postwar Luxembourg social world.