Regie:
Ivan OstrochovskýCamera:
Juraj ChlpíkActeurs:
Samuel Skyva, Samuel Polakovič, Vlad Ivanov, Vladimír Strnisko, Milan Mikulčík, Tomáš Turek, Vladimír Zboroň, Martin Šulík, Vladimír Obšil (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
The Catholic Church is having a hard time in Czechoslovakia in the early 1980s. The communist regime threatens to crush it unless it submits to strict control and accepts restrictions on freedom of belief and expression. The clergy is divided into the regime-critical “catacomb church”, which maintains contact with the Vatican and Western media, and the “ecclesiastical hierarchy” which cooperates with those in power and is represented by the state-sponsored priests’ association Pacem in Terris that existed in the ČSSR from 1971 to 1989. This is the context in which young seminarians Michal and Juraj have to decide whether to remain faithful to their vocation and idealism or to bow to pressure from the secret police. Ostrochovský has created an austere, overwhelming black-and-white work in which he artfully contrasts the pallor of marble, plaster and faces with the darkness of the night and the black cassocks. A frosty film noir in which, just a few years before the collapse of the totalitarian system, the forces of history and the servants of two powers and two belief systems collide. (Berlinale)
(meer)Prijzen
- winnaar
- nominatie
Sun in a Net Awards
- 2022 - Juraj Chlpík (Best Cinematography)
- 2022 - Jan Daňhel, Maroš Šlapeta, Martin Malo (Best Editing)
- 2022 - Katarína Hollá (Best Costume Design)
- 2022 - Albert Malinovský, Ivan Ostrochovský, Katarína Tomková (Best Feature Film)
- 2022 - Ivan Ostrochovský (Best Direction)
- 2022 - Ivan Ostrochovský, Marek Leščák, Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Best Screenplay)
- 2022 - Samuel Polakovič (Best Actor in a Leading Role)
- 2022 - Vlad Ivanov (Best Actor in a Supporting Role)
- 2022 - Milan Mikulčík (Best Actor in a Supporting Role)
- 2022 - Cristian Lolea, Miroslav Tóth (Best Music)
- 2022 - Tobias Potočný (Best Sound Design)
- 2022 - Lukáš Král (Best Make-Up)
Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)
- 2020 - Ivan Ostrochovský (Encounters – Best Film)