Servants
Year: 2020Certificate: 15
- Director:
- Ivan Ostrochovský
- Cast:
- Samuel Skyva, Samuel Polakovic, Vlad Ivanov, Vladimír Strnisko, Milan Mikulcík
- Running Time:
- 80 mins
- Language:
- Slovak
- English Subtitles:
- Yes
- Country of Origin:
- Czech Republic, Ireland, Romania, Slovakia
- Genre(s):
- Drama, International
- Formats:
This film is only available to screen digitally e.g. via a purchased digital copy from iTunes. Available to screen from 28 June 2021.
The year is 1980. Michal and Juraj are students at a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Fearing the dissolution of their school, the tutors are moulding the seminarians into a shape satisfactory to the ruling Communist Party. Each of the young students must decide if he will give into the temptation and choose the easier way of collaborating with the regime, or if he will subject himself to draconian surveillance by the secret police.
From director Ivan Ostrochovský, co-written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz (IDA, SMALL AXE), Marek Lescák and Ivan Ostrochovský, SERVANTS received its world premiere at Berlin Film Festival 2020 in the Encounters competition.