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Hostage (2014)
Directed by Juraj Nvota
Overview
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.
Length 97 minutes
Actors
Richard Labuda | Libuše Šafránková | Milan Lasica | Alexander Bárta | Slávka Halčáková | Ondřej Vetchý | Lenka Janíková | Miroslav Noga | Róbert Roth | Ondřej Malý | Milan Ondrík | Petra Vajdová | Richard Autner | Tamara Fischer | Szidi Tobias | Ady Hajdu | Jana Oľhová | Christopher Michael Paulíny | Gregor Hraška | Tomáš Florek | Viktor Stupka | Matylda Homolová | Erik Bekeš | Martin Hrevuš | Tomáš Samko | Adam Praskač | David Pašš | Zita Furková | Zuzana Konečná | Jan Mazák | Marián Labuda ml. | Michal Koleják | Martin Kochan | Michal Rosík | Mária Breinerová | Lenka Janková | Ingrid Ištóková | Vlado Zboroň | Mária Landová | Martin Škoda | Mária Čubová | Peter Pišťanek | Michal Bednár