The Glassworker

The Glassworker

A love that could not be broken.

202498 min7.0 / 10

A hand-drawn romantic drama that uses the fragility of glasswork as a metaphor for love and pacifism amid the encroaching darkness of war.

A young glassworker-in-training living with his pacifist father finds his apprenticeship upended by an impending war and the arrival of an army colonel to their seaside town.

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