Servants
(2020)
Overview
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.
Director
Ivan Ostrochovský
Writers
Ivan Ostrochovský, Marek Leščák, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
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Samuel Skyva
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Reviews
SWITCH.
⭐ 6/10August 22, 2020
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 contemporary one. Unfortunately, full advantage o… read the rest.
Status
Released
Original Language
SK
Budget
$1,700,000
Revenue
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