Michal and Juraj, 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.
Cinematography
Boxy Academy ratio traps you with the characters.
Acting
Skyva and Polakovič say everything with silence.
Direction
Ostrochovský makes bureaucracy feel like horror.
Director
Ivan Ostrochovský
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on real secret police files on Czech seminaries; the 'K' files kept tabs on thousands of priests-in-training.
Shot in the actual former seminary where director Ostrochovský's own father studied—before being expelled for refusing to collaborate.
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