I am David

This movie is an adaptation of Anne Holm's novel "North to Freedom". It's a story of an orphan, David. David grew up in a Communist concentration camp with a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. He escaped from Bulgaria, and needed to go through Greece, Italy, and Switzerland to Denmark. After he left Greece, he sneaked into a ship to Italy and got help from a shipman. At Italy, he saved a girl's life and experienced the warm of family. In the way to Switzerland, he met an old lady who was a painter. This lady helped David a lot and treated him very well, but he had to go on his journey. When David got into a bookstore of Switzerland, he found he was familiar with a female author who published an autobiography. Then he remembered everything when he was a child. The female author was his mother. In the end, he finally had reunion with his mother.

In this movie, David changes a lot. At first, he is a boy who wouldn't open his heart to everyone. Since he grew up in the Communist concentration camp, he knew how to protect himself and learned not to try to make a mistake. In that camp, his good friend, John, was dead for David because he stole a piece of soap. That affected David very much. When he escaped from the camp, he always fled away from others who tried to help him. But he gradually knew that some people were sincere to help him even though some people he met were not good and kind ones. David learned to accept their assistance little by little and he became a optimistic boy finally. I think the movie is really good for its way of filming and the young boy's fantastic acting. The boy really show the audience the struggle of David's heart and his facial expression is also excellent. The movie is use the technique of flashback and makes David's memory remembering all the things from his childhood. Anyway, this movie is really good.