Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
SERVANTS
Služobníci
Synopsis
In Czechoslovakia, 1980, two novitiates, Michal and Juraj, are pressured to mold its students into satisfactory citizens under the totalitarian regime. With the school on the brink of dissolution, they have to choose between collaborating with the government or becoming targets of the secret police.
Synopsis
In Czechoslovakia, 1980, two novitiates, Michal and Juraj, are pressured to mold its students into satisfactory citizens under the totalitarian regime. With the school on the brink of dissolution, they have to choose between collaborating with the government or becoming targets of the secret police.
Our take
Dissidence and fear rip through the paranoid halls of a Catholic seminary in this stark yet beautiful thriller about the struggle for spiritual independence. Marrying hallucinatory visuals with needle-sharp tension, Servants evokes Pawlikowski’s Ida, while unveiling an arresting vision of its own.