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  • 2022
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Summary 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.

Directed By: Ivan Ostrochovský

Written By: Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Marek Lescák, Ivan Ostrochovský

  • 2022
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2022
  • Unrated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 20 m

Servants

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary 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.

Directed By: Ivan Ostrochovský

Written By: Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Marek Lescák, Ivan Ostrochovský

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90
Feb 25, 2022
This is an unsettling rebuke of government control and ideological manipulation — as well as a sharp cry against compliance with the prevailing status quo.
By Sarah Ward FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 25, 2022
Servants is briskly shaped at just under 80 minutes, yet its alien-historical world-building is effective enough that you emerge from it feeling both out of time and out of breath: Any longer, and all humanity would bleed out of this earthly-but-ethereal conspiracy drama entirely.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 25, 2022
Servants confirms the director as a major talent.
By Tara Brady FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 25, 2022
Pure evil permeates this brief, 80-minute film, whose cold visual brilliance reminds me of the recent movies of Paweł Pawlikowski. It wasn’t until some time after it had finished that I grasped one of the reasons it was so oppressive: there are no women in it at all. There is a chill of political fear.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 25, 2022
Ostrochovsky often begins shots with characters frozen in place for several seconds before they launch into action, as if they were chess pieces moved by God across the bare lines of the seminary’s crumbling stone architecture.
By Natalia Winkelman FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 25, 2022
Ostrochovský never quite achieves “riveting” with this narrative. But he’s made a chilling reminder of the Bad Old Days, when the Cold War might have given the world moral clarity about who was for freedom and civil liberties and who sought to quash them.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 25, 2022
If nothing else, the period picture represents an impressive change of pace from Ostrochovsky’s hard-knock feature directorial debut.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Punkchart films, Point Film, Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska, Negativ, Film and Music Entertainment (IRE), Libra Film Productions, Hai Hui Entertainement, Sentimentalfilm, Negativ Film
Release Date Feb 25, 2022
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Unrated
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Website https://filmmovement.com/servants
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Awards

Sun in a Net Awards, Slovakia
• 3 Wins & 12 Nominations
Festival International de Film Saint-Jean-de-Luz
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Odesa International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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