The Girl and the Oak

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Krešimir Golik

Status Released

Release Date 1955-02-16

Storyline

Smilja is a little girl living in Dalmatian Zagora. One day, her mother dies under a small oak tree and she is left without parents. Luckily, she gets adopted and continues to nurture the oak where her mother died. Many years later, Smilja is a handsome woman, but her jealous stepbrother Josip kills her boyfriend Ivan and rapes her. Ivan's brothers swear revenge.