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Servants

5.6 / 10

81 minutes

2020-11-12

Slovak

CZ

Actors :

Samuel Skyva, Samuel Polakovič, Vlad Ivanov, Vladimír Strnisko, Milan Mikulčík, Tomáš Turek, Vladimír Zboroň, Martin Šulík, Vladimír Obšil, Peter Zálesnák, Zvonko Lakčevič, Dusan Kuznecov, Filip Novák, Ján Marcin, Svätozár Rúzicka

Description

Michal and Juraj, two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.

Reviews

SWITCH.

SWITCH.

6/23/2021, 3:58:43 PM

As a piece of filmmaking, 'Servants' is certainly impressive, filled with striking cinematography and flashes where we glimpse the strange, surreal world behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia. What is even more beguiling about the film is reminding one's self that this is set in 1980, the very recent past. The world we see feels captured in time, a vision of a post-war world rather than a more...