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 students into a shape satisfactory to the ruling Communist Party. Each of the young seminarians 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. A frosty film noir in which, just a few years before the collapse of the totalitarian system, the forces of history and the servants of two powers and two belief systems collide.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 20 min.
- Country, year
- Slovakia, Romania, Czechia, Ireland, 2020
- Genre
- Drama, Detective, Available online
- Language
- Slovak
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian
- Age rating
- N-16
Credits
- Director
- Ivan Ostrochovský
- Screenplay
- Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Marek Lešcák, Ivan Ostrochovský
- Producers
- Ivan Ostrochovský, Albert Malinovský, Katarína Tomková
- Cinematography
- Juraj Chlpík
- Music
- Miroslav Tóth, Cristian Lolea
- Cast
- Lana Barić, Daan Stuyven, Lóránt Bocskor-Salló, Maja Roberti
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
Director
Ivan Ostrochovský
Ivan Ostrochovský studied documentary directing and worked as a director and producer in Bratislava. After making several short documentaries and series, he directed his first feature-length documentary, „Velvet Terrorists“, which premiered at the 2014 Berlinale and won several awards. His debut fiction feature film, „Koza“, screened at the Berlinale in 2015, received various awards and was selected as Slovakia’s 2016 Oscar entry.
