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With Samuel Skyva, Samuel Polakovic, Vlad Ivanov, Vladimír Strnisko. 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.
May 11, 2021 · Servants is a black-and-white film in every sense, a monochrome exploration of the paranoid, late socialist milieu of 1980s Czechoslovakia. It depicts the flailing brutality of a failing state, perpetrated against its own people.
In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects, including the clergy. Servants follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose ...
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Mar 12, 2020 · Slovakian director Ivan Ostrochovský's sophomore feature is a brilliantly crafted, atmospherically enveloping seminary drama.
Visually gifted film-maker Ivan Ostrochovský's fascinatingly sombre, starkly unsentimental, and extraordinarily potent 'Servants' (2020) is a stark, beautifully performed agitprop drama concerning the increasingly precarious fate of two naive seminarians studying in an austere theological seminary who both fatefully decide take an ...
Two students of a theological seminary in cold war Czechoslovakia must decide if they will collaborate, or attempt to resist the secret police. Shot in striking, atmospheric black-and-white, Servants is both a brooding morality tale and a taut political thriller.
Servants (2020) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more... 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.
