Servants
Pure evil permeates this brief, 80-minute film, whose cold visual brilliance reminds me of the recent movies of Paweł Pawlikowski.
Servants
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 seminary is under increasing pressure by the Party to mold its students into satisfactory citizens. With the school on the brink of dissolution, and its head priest a target for blackmail, Michal and Juraj will have to choose between collaborating with the government as informants, or becoming targets of the secret police. Shot in striking, atmospheric black-and-white, Servants is both a brooding morality tale and a taut political thriller "that jitters and shivers with anti-authoritarian sentiment beneath its serene monochrome aesthetic" (Variety).
Genre
Drama
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Runtime
80
Language
Slovak
Director
Ivan Ostrochovský
Writer(s)
Ivan Ostrochovský
Cast
Samuel Polakovic,
Vlad Ivanov,
Vladimír Strnisko
Awards:
Nominee, Encounters Award, Berlin International Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter
Arriving between Pawel Pawlikowski’s 'Cold War' and 'Limonov' — the award-garlanded second and eagerly anticipated third segments of the boxy-monochrome trilogy begun with Oscar winner 'Ida' — Ivan Ostrochovsky’s steely drama 'Servants' somewhat bravely adopts a very similar approach in terms of ...
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 2.25.22 - 4.21.22
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