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Servants

Movie
2020
1h 20m
Slovak
Drama
Set during the period of normalisation in Czechoslovakia, in 1980 two friends apply to study at a Roman Catholic seminary in order to escape the moral devastation of society in the communist regime. They soon discover that the seminary is controlled by Pacem in Terris, an organisation of clerics willingly collaborating with the regime.
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Directed By: Ivan Ostrochovský

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miguelreina says...
3 years ago
[Stockholm FF] It has an attractive texture, a kind of unhealthy atmosphere, which addresses the political discourse on the collaborationism of the Church with the State in communist Czechoslovakia. This rebellion of the youth is also a metaphor for the country that yearned for democracy. The oppressive B / W photography and dark music, however, provoke a certain distance, a somewhat cold and rigid look. But there is a work of framing and narrative balance that is really sophisticated and admirable.
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miguelreina says...
3 years ago
[Stockholm FF] It has an attractive texture, a kind of unhealthy atmosphere, which addresses the political discourse on the collaborationism of the Church with the State in communist Czechoslovakia. This rebellion of the youth is also a metaphor for the country that yearned for democracy. The oppressive B / W photography and dark music, however, provoke a certain distance, a somewhat cold and rigid look. But there is a work of framing and narrative balance that is really sophisticated and admirable.
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Saint Pauly says...
3 years ago
SluzobníciIt's like a scholastic textbook in an art gallery, and if you don't know this chapter of Czechoslovakian history, you may feel like a failure being put to the test. It's the story of a seminary in 1980 Czechoslovakia when the national catholic church sided with the communists in power. The rest of the film is all arty cinematography and artsy soundtrack that, at 80 minutes, is long enough to be pretentious but not to be exhausting.
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SWITCH.
4 years ago
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 r More
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