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Servants

Original title: Sluzobníci
  • 2020
  • Unrated
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
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Servants (2020)
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Two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of t... Read allTwo students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.Two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.

  • Director
    • Ivan Ostrochovský
  • Writers
    • Rebecca Lenkiewicz
    • Marek Lescák
    • Ivan Ostrochovský
  • Stars
    • Samuel Skyva
    • Samuel Polakovic
    • Vlad Ivanov
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    880
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Ivan Ostrochovský
    • Writers
      • Rebecca Lenkiewicz
      • Marek Lescák
      • Ivan Ostrochovský
    • Stars
      • Samuel Skyva
      • Samuel Polakovic
      • Vlad Ivanov
    • 6User reviews
    • 34Critic reviews
    • 78Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 9 wins & 22 nominations

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    Samuel Skyva and Tomas Turek in Servants (2020)
    Milan Mikulcík in Servants (2020)
    Vlad Ivanov and Samuel Skyva in Servants (2020)
    Samuel Skyva and Samuel Polakovic in Servants (2020)
    Samuel Skyva and Samuel Polakovic in Servants (2020)

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    Samuel Skyva
    • Juraj
    Samuel Polakovic
    • Michal
    Vlad Ivanov
    Vlad Ivanov
    • Dr. Ivan
    Vladimír Strnisko
    • Dean
    Milan Mikulcík
    Milan Mikulcík
    • Spiritual
    Tomas Turek
    • Ductor
    Vladimír Zboron
    • Secretary
    Martin Sulík
    Martin Sulík
    • Physician
    Vladimír Obsil
    • Father Coufar
    Zvonko Lakcevic
    • Secret Policeman 1
    Peter Zálesnák
    • Secret Policeman 2
    Dusan Kuznecov
    • Minister
    Filip Novák
    • Seminarian
    Ján Marcin
    • Seminarian
    Svätozár Rúzicka
    • Seminarian
    Adam Bíro
    • Seminarian
    Marián Púcik
    • Seminarian
    Jozef Minárik
    • Seminarian
    • Director
      • Ivan Ostrochovský
    • Writers
      • Rebecca Lenkiewicz
      • Marek Lescák
      • Ivan Ostrochovský
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    • Soundtracks
      Violin Concerto in A minor, BMV: 1041 Allegro
      Music by Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performed by Emmy Verhey, violin

      Performed by Amsterdam Bach Soloists

      Courtesy of Brilliant Classics

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    8/10
    'Servants' is hypnotic, emotionally brutalist cinema.
    Visually gifted film-maker Ivan Ostrochovský's fascinatingly sombre, starkly unsentimental, and extraordinarily potent 'Servants' (2020) is a stark, beautifully performed agitprop drama concerning the increasingly precarious fate of two naive seminarians studying in an austere theological seminary who both fatefully decide take an extraordinarily heroic stand against their irreligious Soviet oppressors, with a greatly unsettling, gravitationally oppressive atmosphere, which all-too effectively evokes the stifling, paranoia-steeped angst of communist-era Czechoslovakia. A darkly-tinted, immaculately photographed, frequently moving, thematically bleak B/W feature that certainly doesn't flinch from exploring the harsher realities borne of courageously resisting a totalitarian government.

    The scenes of morbidly meticulous, dispassionate efficiency of cruel, dough-faced StB stooge Dr. Ivan (Vlad Ivanov), pitilessly rooting out the dissident seminarians from their glum, august place of learning has an especially unpleasant gravitas. Hey! It's not exactly what you might call a soothing viewing experience, monochromatically invoking malevolent horror tones, but it's a hugely rewarding one, due to the unerring solemnity of the grimly unfolding events. 'Servants' is hypnotic, emotionally brutalist cinema, and I have to strongly praise bravura actor Vlad Ivanov who is quietly insidious as malign secret police hatchet man Doctor Ivan! And I was eerily entranced and perturbed in equal measure by the glacially efficient score by composers Cristian Lolea & Miroslav Toth, their blackened, foreboding themes anxiously drawing you uncomfortably deeper into the secret police's sordid, crepuscular world of state sanctioned evil.
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    • Release date
      • March 2020 (Czech Republic)
    • Countries of origin
      • Slovakia
      • Romania
      • Czech Republic
      • Ireland
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • Slovak
    • Also known as
      • Слуги
    • Filming locations
      • Bratislava, Slovakia
    • Production companies
      • Punkchart films
      • Point Film
      • Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $28,033
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 20 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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