Telo bez dufve (1996)

Director:

Wiktor Grodecki

Writer:

Wiktor Grodecki (writer)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

Documentary look at doomed male prostitutes in Prague, ages 15 to 18, who troll at the public swimming pool...

Plot Keywords:

Exploitation | Prague | Interview | Male Prostitution | Pornographer

Directed by
Wiktor Grodecki

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Wiktor Grodecki		writer

Produced by
Marta Karoliová	....	associate producer
Peter Lencses	....	line producer
Miro Vostiar	....	producer

Cinematography by
Vladimír Holomek

Film Editing by
Wiktor Grodecki

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
David Svec	....	first assistant director

Sound Department
Manfred Arbter	....	re-recording supervisor
Petr Forejt	....	assistant sound recordist
Klaus Hornemann	....	sound re-recording mixer
Michal Houdek	....	sound
Brigitte Pradel	....	re-recording assistant

Camera and Electrical Department
Vlastimil Malaska	....	assistant camera
Ales Vaclavik	....	assistant camera

Editorial Department
Gabriela Pitráková	....	assistant editor
Krasimira Velickova	....	assistant editor

Thanks
Romana Cisarova	....	thanks
Pierre Couveinhes	....	thanks
Karel Dobrichovsky	....	thanks
Mark Finch	....	in memory of
Irena Grodecka	....	very special thanks
Alan Krása	....	thanks
Andrzej Modrzejewski	....	very special thanks
Jirí Novak	....	thanks
Ladislav Novozámský	....	thanks
Victoria Scherautz	....	very special thanks
Volker Schlöndorff	....	thanks
Vlastimil Stránský	....	thanks
Dirk Tessnow	....	thanks
Ales Vaclavik	....	thanks (as Ales Václavík)

Production Companies

• MiroFilm

Distributors

• Water Bearer Films (1997) (USA) (VHS)
• Water Bearer Films (2000) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Babelsberg Studios  mixing studio
• Babelsberg Studios  thanks
• FilmGroup 333  thanks
• FilmGroup 444  thanks
• Intergram Prague  thanks
• Solarfilm Bratislava  subtitles

Also Known As:

Body Without Soul (International: English title)

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

Czech Republic

Language:

Czech

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:R | UK:18 (cut)

Filming Locations:

Prague, Czech Republic

Company:

MiroFilm

Soundtrack:

Adagio in G Minor

This film is deeply flawed

Aside from the jaw dropping sensationalism of this film making, which left me speechless at several points......Once i came back to earth i feel it has to be said that this is "auteur" film masquerading as documentary. As documentary film, it remains irresponsible. The film maker went on to make three films about this subject, and it's more about the film makers own obsessions than anything else. Was it a film about a period in a drug crazed pornographer's monstrous life and how he moved from beyond horror and into the absurdly grotesque.(dark, dark,black comedy) ?? As documentary, i thought this was it's most successful subject. To say it is a film about under age male prostitution in Praha is incorrect. Only part of that reality is ever revealed, so much of what ought to have been explored simply remains absent.To have done all these boys honour & justice, he would have had to expand the true context of their lives and humanised them as much as possible. In the very least abandon a sensationalist and mythologising approach in favour of level headed factual survey. He did not. To say it is a film about pornography in Praha is also incorrect. Again only a small part of that reality is seen, and most left out. No other geographical or social context was explored, no interviews with police or other pornographers. No context of what life is like now in the city of Praha, concerning these matters. To this extent you can charge the director with exploitation of these boys as much as anybody else. This film is a pornographic documentary about sex, drugs and death which happens to be set in Praha . The audience manipulation is phenomenal. I really had to re-check in myself a number of realities after it had finished. Be critical and don't just take this highly disturbing film at face value.