7.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Fantasy, Music • 2025 • 109 min
Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song (2025)
Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song (2025)
Overview
Ten-year-old Ida believes that the mysterious angelic singing resounding across the village graveyard is the only thing keeping her beloved Grandma alive. So she decides to join the school choir-even though she is absolutely tone deaf.
Starring Cast
Lana Maric • Liza Mursic • Judita Frankovic
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Mixed
Christianity: Positive
Viewer Rating
7.5
Overview
Ten-year-old Ida believes that the mysterious angelic singing resounding across the village graveyard is the only thing keeping her beloved Grandma alive. So she decides to join the school choir-even though she is absolutely tone deaf.
Starring Cast
Lana Maric • Liza Mursic • Judita Frankovic
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
Political: Leans Right
Confidence: Medium
Set in rural Slovenia during the 1970s, the film portrays a young girl's turn to imagination, secret Catholic rituals, and personal faith as refuge from socialist schooling, family conflict, and the rigid demands of the communist system.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: High
The film follows a young girl in rural Slovenia who believes her singing can protect her grandmother, blending everyday village life with magical realism in a story rooted in local culture and family bonds.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: Medium
The film portrays a young girl's deep bond with her grandmother and her private Catholic faith as sources of stability and comfort while her parents' marriage faces constant arguments and the threat of breakup, underscoring multigenerational ties and religious ritual amid nuclear family strain.
Christianity: Positive
Confidence: High
The film presents Catholicism through a child's sincere faith and secret prayers, framing it as a source of comfort, protection, and poetic connection to the divine amid external pressures.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song follows a young girl's imaginative journey through loss and growing up in communist Yugoslavia, rendered with magical realism and no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
This coming-of-age tale centers on a young girl's emotional and imaginative experiences in a Yugoslav village, with no transgender characters or related themes explored.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film adapts Suzana Tratnik’s novel Neither Voice with its central character Ida remaining a young girl, consistent with the source material and without any documented changes to established character genders.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
The film presents an original narrative centered on newly invented characters in a 1970s Slovenian village setting, with no established source material or prior canon specifying any character's race.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High
Not depicted.
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