Veteran Swiss filmmaker Fredi M. Murer's sentimental fable about a child prodigy and his difficulty fitting in with a world of ordinary people is poised somewhere between SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISHER (1993) and LITTLE MAN TATE (1991) and aimed squarely at a family audience.
Prodigy Vitus von Holzen (Fabrizio Borsani) lives with his English mother, Helen (Julika Jenkins), and Swiss father, Leo (Urs Jucker), who quickly realize that he's something special: frighteningly smart, especially at math, and a precociously talented pianist, but at the same time a little boy capable of whispering to his beloved grandfather (Bruno Ganz) that when he grows up, he's going t...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG
Length:
123 mins