Hostage

Summary 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. View more details

Hostage

Directed : Juraj Nvota

Written : Peter Pistanek Marian Urban

Stars : Ondrej Vetchý Libuse Safránková Milan Lasica Richard Labuda

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Genres : Comedy Drama History

Release date : Dec 3, 2014

Countries of origin : Czech Republic Slovakia

Language : Czech Hungarian Slovak

Production companies : Ceská Televize

Summary 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. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy Drama History

Release date : Dec 3, 2014

Countries of origin : Czech Republic Slovakia

Language : Czech Hungarian Slovak

Production companies : Ceská Televize

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