The film Fly Away Home is seen through the eyes of a precocious nine-year-old girl, but a few of its ideas are anything but childish.
Set in Vienna, Austria, in the aftermath of World War II, the movie tackles what it is like to flee a war zone and the sexual bartering and bullying that happen in a manor home after Soviet troops are billeted there, sharing it with locals.
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