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Hostage
2014
Directed by
Juraj Nvota
97 min
Tragicomic family film about the world of children heroes - particularly the son of a local communist officer and his friend, a little hostage of the regime, whose parents emigrated to the West, few years before "Prague Spring" and the occupation of Czechoslovakia. Camaraderie, the first big discoveries of love, enemy gang fights and naive ideas are confronted with the reality of adult's world. The film is about the first contacts with bizarre and absurd reality of relationships and attitudes of adults, politics, emigration, but also betrayal and death and about how all those things form and transform the lives of small boys, who are forced to grow up too quickly.
Ratings
3.5
Details
Release Date
2014-12-04
Runtime
97 min
Original Language
Czech
Languages
Hungarian
Czech
Slovak
Production Companies
ALEF Film & Media Group
Česká televize
Filmové ateliéry
RTVS
UN Film
Filmpark Production
Countries
Slovakia
Czech Republic
Genres
Comedy
Drama
Family