Servants
2020 · Movie · 81 min · ★ 5.4 · 89% critics
In 1980s totalitarian Czechoslovakia, two young seminary students face growing pressure to cooperate with authorities or risk constant surveillance. As faith, fear, and conscience collide, they must choose what they are willing to endure.
Also known as Les séminaristes
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Details
- Original title
- Služobníci
- Years
- 2020
- Release date
- 2020-11-12
- Language
- SK
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Critic score
- 89/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.4/10 (21 votes)
About
You may like this if you’re drawn to austere, morally tense historical dramas in the vein of Disobedience or The Auschwitz Report; Not for you if you prefer fast pacing or a more fully developed story.
Pros: striking black-and-white visuals; tense oppressive atmosphere; intriguing historical setting | Cons: feels unfinished; limited payoff; ideas not fully developed
Themes
- priest
- black and white
- seminary
- communism
- secret police
- medical examination
- 1980s
- communist espionage
- secret
- central europe
Cast & crew
Samuel Skyva
as Juraj
Samuel Polakovič
as Michal
Vlad Ivanov
as Dr. Ivan
- VS
Vladimír Strnisko
as Dean
Milan Mikulčík
as Clergyman
Tomáš Turek
as Leader
Vladimír Zboroň
as Secretary
Martin Šulík
as Physician
Vladimír Obšil
as Father Coufar
- PZ
Peter Zálesnák
as Secret Policeman 2
Directed by Ivan Ostrochovský